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Seud! I did answer that. I would never go out and look for crime (playing cop). If crime finds me in the form of a forcible felony and I am forced to shoot someone it will be real easy to prove that I was defending myself from the plaintiff. Just as easy as saying the badge/CCP combo is so that folks know that I am legally carrying and don't prematurely shoot the person with a gun.
See its when you guys twist it with this preconceived misguided notion that people carry fake badges because they want to play cop that it becomes wrong or illegal.
Using a badge to detain someone against their will is illegal. I'm not using the badge to detain them I'm using a gun. The badge as stated many times is to let folks know that I'm the good guy.
Before I even get to first, how old are you? Have you ever studied the law...case law specifically? The rule of a shooting is that it is NEVER EVER easy to prove anything. Let's suppose you shoot a black man and the responding cop is a black man who hates white men (just an example folks) and feels that the days of whites shooting blacks and getting away with it are over....guess what? You are going to jail. All that he has to do is interpret your statements and the evidence one way and you go to jail. The prosecutors tend to take what the cops say with extreme weight and you lose. Get a DA that is anti-gun and your chances of skating go down exponentially.
We just had a case here in Atlanta where a builder came onto a homeowner's property and put a knife to the homeowner's son's face and threatened to kill him. The homeowner was on his way home when he got the call from his son telling him what happened. The HO told the son to go inside and lock the doors and called the police himself. The hapless damned police took their time getting there and the HO arrived first. The builder came at the homeowner from the property next door, refused to show his hands, and kept approaching even as the HO was retreating and pulling his gun. The builder kept coming even after the HO, not wanting to shoot the builder fired a warning shot. The builder was shot and killed and the homeowner is now serving 20-30 years for murder 1...that is beyond me. The HO stayed on scene and cooperated in every way and was still convicted. The prosecutor refused to grant the illegal alien who saw the whole thing a deal (to avoid punishment for being illegal) so they lost that testimony.
First, if you are still holding the gun when the police get there...you are possibly, if not probably, going to get shot regardless. I would never be holding a gun when the police arrived.
Second, no one is twisting anything. The problem with your dumba$$ badge isn't your intentions or what you perceive your intentions to be. The end result will be what everyone in the immediate area perceived your actions to be. When 10 people get up and tell the judge and jury that they thought you were a cop because of your badge, it doesn't matter what your intentions were. Remember, the law isn't always fair and there is a thing called reasonable interpretation. There is an almost unanimous consensus of people on this board, stating that it is a stupid idea and will have you arrested for impersonating....yet your press on.
Lastly, when the BG's lawyer gets done with you, you WILL HAVE USED THAT BADGE TO DETAIN THE SUSPECT. That lawyer is going to have all 10 of those witnesses that said they thought you were a cop testify and you will be screwed. Revenge from a prison cell on the man who captured him, is just something a pissed off felon would love to do. You working to pay him for violating his civil rights or some nonsense like that is just what the current legal system would do to you.
DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB idea. But like someone said, you are listening from bad advice from a family member. I imagine that person is as tired of arguing with you over it as we are and probably just said "okay, I would hesitate" so that you would stop talking to them about it.
I smell a troll on this one folks
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