Thanks! Looks like Costco man should have concealed it better immediately after the incident. ...and acted more calm. That’s all that a person can do. If the cops open fire on them then, oh, well. There are consequences to everything. And from criminology, criminals don’t consider consequences.
Food for thought for everyone. We won’t live forever.
Everyone should calculate the odds of carrying or not, each for his or her own situation. Just be sure to get as much training as possible, and get the permit, even in a constitutional carry state. Attend a school, even if the school is run by a retard. It’s good training for keeping our mouths shut and staying humble (very important for self-defense).
Attend another school, and another.
Continue training. Doing background checks for concealed carry permits make’s ‘em feel better to know the cleaner neighbors they might meet, and in some states, allows for reciprocation in more of the other states. There are always risks...like accidentally shooting oneself in the leg. Even a cop does that once in a while. Even good people who try the hardest are human and can only do the best that we can do. And we all have our bad days and good days.
Any police reading this should also remember that many drug-free, clean living, nice older men and women might look a little crazy at times while having a problem with diabetes, strokes and the like, especially after too much excitement—like a car stop, for example. And younger residents aren’t all bad, either. Some of them are really good, clean and well trained. Some of them just might not be trained on how to calm someone else who’s hysterical and too impulsive. We’re not all shrinks, you know.
Something very hard for me to do at times. Like last week when fishing my favorite creek. Some a$$hole jumps in front of me just as I'm getting into the best water.