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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope
I have a suspicion that many police officers have no idea about the truth behind the right to OC......and so therefore....they make mistakes. Happens in every job.
Doesn't make either party a bad person.
LycantypeA'sthrope
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It isn't making the initial mistake that is so bad, it is the insistence on plowing further down that row despite the evidence that the person is in the wrong. I was talking to an acquaintance about this yesterday and he told me he had a friend who was a cop, and if he caught me with my gun out in the open, he would run me in no matter what. I informed him that the law was the law, and not what some officer thought it should be, or would like it to be. His response was that the guy did not care, I would be arrested.
Now this is second hand information, and it may not be true of this one particular individual, but it seems to be true enough of enough people that it is a real problem. We are constantly told that ignorance of the law is no excuse. How much more should that be true for those charged with enforcing it?