Aguila Blanca
Staff
This statement sounds modestly reasonable, under the circumstances.Having worked hard to appear suspicious in an armed-and-loaded visit to the park, Embody cannot cry foul after park rangers, to say nothing of passers-by, took the bait.
And this decision could also be pertinent to a recent discussion about an officer who stopped a man walking along a sidewalk (videographer in tow) carrying a .22LR clone of ... some kind of "assault" rifle (the details escape me at the moment). The question was asked: did the officer violate the person's rights by stopping him and asking to examine the firearm to determine whether or not it was a fully automatic assault rifle. I was on the fence to a considerable degree, but I ultimately sided with the police officer, and this decision neatly sums up why I did so.
If you don't want to hook a shark, don't chum the waters.