[marktwain]

Also a lot of people are unaware that many “innocent” people are shot by police every year during a traffic stops and often because of improper gun owner behavior.

I think there are very, very few of those. They tend to make national news.

Perhaps a couple of them in a year.

I follow this assiduously, usually a couple of hours a day, almost every day.

Shootings of innocent gun owning citizens because of poor gun handling at traffic stops is a very rare event.

If you are talking about poor behavior generally, sure, that is more common. But you mentioned gun owners.

[traderrob6]

It’s difficult to find statistics on this but bottom line is, one is too many if it’s you.

[traderrob6]

Difference between gun owners and legal gun owners. But even simply possessing an illegal gun does not necessarily warrant a shoot down. However, if the cop has a perceived threat whether real or not he’s going to react.