Whoa. Most of what I am talking about are local folks, your neighbors, who just don’t know any better. I’d save the litigation for scoundrels who truly deserve it.
I remember back in the ‘80’s, when while open carry was legal in my State, it was pretty uncommon among polite people. Well, I walk into a local store run by a friend of mind, and I see an evil looking individual talking to the clerk I know.
Scrawny, dirty blue jeans and a t-shirt, long black hair and beard, with a .45 in a holster in the back of his pants. So I quietly went to the back, to be out of sight, yet keep an eye on things. I wasn’t armed myself, but started to look for what could be used as a weapon.
Finally, the character walked out peacefully, so I went up to the clerk and mentioned his gun. “Oh, that’s just *officer* such-and-such”, he replied. “He comes in here all the time.”
This was a good lesson to me. While my safety gene still makes me not trust anyone around me with a gun, having known a lot of dumbasses, I long hence changed my focus from the gun to the person.
A lot of Americans need to relearn gun culture. And I think it’s better that they learn it the friendly way.
Agreed, and that’s as it should be for John Q. Citizen. But LE is supposed to know the law and behave accordingly. This was an abuse of authority. They need to learn a lesson - the time of abusing conservatives and any people who intend to utilize their rights protected by the BoR is over. We’re not going to take it anymore.