Most large city LEOs are opposed to carrying. Not for some nefarious desire to control the people, but because there are a multitude of everyday confrontations in large cities from traffic accidents to arguing over a parkjng space that they fear could turn deadly if one or both are carrying. There is also the rank and file LEO’s worry that the angry driver being ticketed or the loud drunk being ousted from the bar may be carrying and use his weapon on the cop. These while occuring in Main St America happen with much greater frequency in a large city.
“but because there are a multitude of everyday confrontations in large cities from traffic accidents to arguing over a parkjng space that they fear could turn deadly if one or both are carrying.”
Like the other gun-grabber arguments, this one is false.
I am much less likely to get into a shouting match when I am carrying. Ego is not on the line, and there is always that voice in my head: is this worth somebody’s life?
When I was in my 20s and went out drinking, there was always the possibility of a fight. When I’m carrying, I’m walking away.
Its a specious argument. NY City itself went from about 450 murders in 1960, to 2200+ murders in 1990, then down to 290 in 2017. That is all while it has had the strictest gun control laws in the nation. Clearly, many other factors are at play.
Are you insinuating that maybe if they treated people with respect and were polite that they might not have to worry about pissing people off who are carrying? An armed society is a polite society. In ancient times, a Roman Centurion could be executed for doing a tenth of what gets done today to citizens.