He ran my tags before he left his car so he had the reg’d owner. If he ran that he’d see CHL. I stopped to help a girl who had run over a piece of metal which had gotten stuck under her car. Trooper stopped to see if all was ok and saw my gun because of my position but didn’t say anything. I saw him look and said I had CHL, he said I know. He had run both our tags before approaching.
Cops have the most dangerous job in America. If I can do anything to make them calmer/happy I will. No ass-whoppin’ from the PO-lice ever started with “Yes, sir” or “No, sir”.
You sound like my kinda hero, stopping to help a stranded gal. I have a policy about cops: every time I see one, I say a quiet prayer for that cop, be he highway patrol, city cop, or sherriff. I ask that God keep that cop safe, guide him, and bless him with skill and good timing. I understand that cops put their lives on the line every day for me.
They don't have the most dangerous job in America -- there are others statistically more dangerous, such as commercial fishing, which is my background. The risk my dad, brothers, and many friends took every season was far higher even than a cop in L.A. Every year of my childhood and well into my adulthood, at least one person I knew or knew of didn't come home. Just a few weeks ago, a relative lost her husband in a fishing accident out of my home town. So the "dangerous job" thing doesn't impress me; what DOES impress me is that those guys put their lives on the line for ME. It's why I say a heartfelt prayer when I see one -- it's become habit.
Every time (plural!!!) I've gotten in trouble with the cops, I richly deserved it and brought it on myself. Absolutely. Every time I've been caught red-handed speeding or some such dumb thing and been let off with a friendly and well-directed warning (which has happened a few times!!!), I have been grateful and made to drive better and wiser.
All those things don't change the fact that the principles of conservatism and the 2nd amendment and common sense mean that whether or not a law-abiding citizen on a routine traffic stop is carrying a permitted concealed weapon, is NONE of the cops business. A cop's job is to SERVE us and to PROTECT us -- not "protect us from ourselves," but to protect us from the bad guys.
GregoTX, you still are all wrong for calling Yarddog "anti police." Yarddog is no more anti-police than I am. Guys who are too proud and stubborn to admit when they're wrong are a pain; when those guys happen to be cops, they're a liability to my freedom.