The LEO in my state KNOWs that a law abiding CCW holder does not have to self-identify. I am tired of being polite and friendly while exercising the most basic or rights affirmed to me by the Constitution. The truth is that the media and meddling society will ALWAYS create disaster out of nothing and no amount of ‘normal politeness’ will change that. It is a regional, cultural and political matter in practicality; it is not likely to change. We have to demand and sustain our rights.
I was looking at it from the point of view of “An armed society is a polite society”. That is, politeness is a function of being armed, not that by being polite we are somehow allowed to be armed.
Even the handshake allegedly came into being as a way to insure that the other person did not have a short dagger hidden up their sleeve.