DeputyVaughn
New member
With regard to the closing of the "cop bashing" threads:
I just wanted to say for the record that I haven't found anything said to be personally offensive or really thatbad in general. I expect to find gun owners wary of law enforcement. Hell, I'm wary of law enforcement when it comes to my guns! My position on Second Amendment issues keeps me in constant trouble at work.
Anyway what I think is that we all have a "reasonable suspicion"(love those COP phrases) that sooner or later the average street cop is going to get the order to go out and "round em up". When I see things happen like they have in the last ten years, it wouldn't surprise me if it happened tomorrow.
Our legislatures have completely lost touch with reality when it comes to firearms issues and they could pass such a law at two am on the last night of a session and the local street cop and Deputy Sheriff's like myself could be told go get em or turn in your gear and I know plenty of guys who would simply "follow orders". However, I hope in this post to assure my friends here and gunowners everywhere that such an order would run into stiff opposition from guys like me. On that day they could have my gear.
Finally, there are always going to be bad cops. Oddly enough if you look for them you can find them in droves. The same is true for good cops. If you seek them you will find them, plenty of them. I like to think I'll be found in that group. I'm not worried when I find a person has a gun in their car unless they put some other actions with it that make it a threat to me. Danger to a police officer doesn't come from a guns presence, but from the intent and actions of the person in possession of it. A gun is not evil in and of itself. People can be, but even those guys are few and far between (and most of them are politicians).
I hope the administrators of this board will take these thoughts into consideration before closing a discussion. As long as everyone remains civil I think talking about these things is productive and good public relations. Please allow them to go on.
Scott A. Vaughn
I just wanted to say for the record that I haven't found anything said to be personally offensive or really thatbad in general. I expect to find gun owners wary of law enforcement. Hell, I'm wary of law enforcement when it comes to my guns! My position on Second Amendment issues keeps me in constant trouble at work.
Anyway what I think is that we all have a "reasonable suspicion"(love those COP phrases) that sooner or later the average street cop is going to get the order to go out and "round em up". When I see things happen like they have in the last ten years, it wouldn't surprise me if it happened tomorrow.
Our legislatures have completely lost touch with reality when it comes to firearms issues and they could pass such a law at two am on the last night of a session and the local street cop and Deputy Sheriff's like myself could be told go get em or turn in your gear and I know plenty of guys who would simply "follow orders". However, I hope in this post to assure my friends here and gunowners everywhere that such an order would run into stiff opposition from guys like me. On that day they could have my gear.
Finally, there are always going to be bad cops. Oddly enough if you look for them you can find them in droves. The same is true for good cops. If you seek them you will find them, plenty of them. I like to think I'll be found in that group. I'm not worried when I find a person has a gun in their car unless they put some other actions with it that make it a threat to me. Danger to a police officer doesn't come from a guns presence, but from the intent and actions of the person in possession of it. A gun is not evil in and of itself. People can be, but even those guys are few and far between (and most of them are politicians).
I hope the administrators of this board will take these thoughts into consideration before closing a discussion. As long as everyone remains civil I think talking about these things is productive and good public relations. Please allow them to go on.
Scott A. Vaughn