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I have a question for you street cops out there. What is your attitude regarding citizens carrying weapons for self defense, legally or illegally? Is it something you personally believe you should act on? Is it sometheing your department requires you to act on? What are the attitudes of other officers and agencies in your experience?
Here in central Oklahoma, law enforcement, the DAs and the courts have generally been tolerant of citizens carrying weapons as long as they were not behaving irresponsibly or criminally. This is basically because, regardless of what the Legislature says, local officials are honest and courageous enough to allow citizens to do for themselves what the system is incapable of doing for them. Cowardly Political Correctness has not reached here in full force yet.
How is it in other parts of the country?
Here in central Oklahoma, law enforcement, the DAs and the courts have generally been tolerant of citizens carrying weapons as long as they were not behaving irresponsibly or criminally. This is basically because, regardless of what the Legislature says, local officials are honest and courageous enough to allow citizens to do for themselves what the system is incapable of doing for them. Cowardly Political Correctness has not reached here in full force yet.
How is it in other parts of the country?