[backwoods-engineer]

carrying a firearm and following a suspect despite having been advised that was contrary to Neighborhood Watch practice by the police liason only 5 months previously

It's really tiresome to keep reading on FR (a supposedly pro-2nd site) that being in Neighborhood Watch or whatever organization trumps my right to carry a firearm for self-defense.

Bull crap.

And if citizen disarmament is what Neighborhood Watch is all about, it is NOT American and I don't want it in my neighborhood. End of story.

[Oztrich Boy]

Take it up with Neighborhood Wstch. They have designated their function as observe and report only.

Of course he has the right to patrol as an armed lone ranger, but he's not what Neighborhood Watch would recognise as a Captain of the Watch while doing so.