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Originally Posted by jcheinaman
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Personally, I find the LEOSA offensive; both politically and morally.
I am not anti-cop (read through my post history), but I am against any laws that create separate "classes" of citizens. With regard to the lawful carriage (bearing) of arms, the LEOSA creates two classes of American citizens:
1.) Cops (and retired cops) and
2.) Everyone the heck else.
Firstly, I do not subscribe to the idea that 'bearing arms' should ever be regarded as either a privilege or an entitlement. I believe that, as American citizens, we all have the
Right to keep and bear arms.
I feel what the LEOSA does is further the idea that
bearing arms (carrying firearms) is an
entitlement reserved for one
class of American citizen. This whole idea disgusts me.
Of course I feel that cops (and retired cops) should be able to carry firearms wherever they want legally. However, I also think that all law abiding citizens should have this Constitutionally protected Right respected throughout the country as well.
I am opposed to any statute or legislation that takes a Right, twists it into a privilege and an entitlement, then doles it back out to establish different classes of citizens. I find such things utterly appalling. I find such things patently un-American.
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