Glad someone agrees.
Bottom line is: If you're carrying exposed, in an open top holster, in the small of your back, in a crowded store while you're distracted, you are inviting disaster!
Yes, yes...
Let me repeat what I said on the Packing.org thread:
The mistakes I made in dealing with my new, unfamiliar holster and my inattentiveness to my surroundings [while they are instructive cautionary points] are beside the fundamental point - it seems evident that the police would have responded identically, if not even more severely (guns drawn, shouting, etc), had I simply printed through my shirt, my jacket had ridden up while reaching for a book, or had been carrying openly in an officially approved thumb-break Bianci leather belt holster.The fundamental point is the inappropriate police actions, in case anyone else missed it.
I'm hoping that this article circulated among New Hampshire police departments both near and far, and that nobody else will be violently confronted for exercising their fundamental right to armed self-defense.