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[agitator]

Cops panic mongering over being equal. What a country.

[Monty22]

Their system of concealed or not is awesome. Texas could use that.

[Billthedrill]

"We worked on a couple of new scenarios with rookies handling car stops with permit holders, where someone says, 'I have a gun and I have a permit' and you're (the trooper) standing outside their car door. What do you do? I don't have the answer," said Sgt. Al Freng, with the State Patrol's training academy.

Al, if you really don't have the answer you need to take up flower arrangement for a living. It isn't as if the LEOs of 38 other states haven't addressed this situation.

All of this "sky is falling" nonsense occurs every time the anti-gun nazis lose a round. They keep saying the streets are going to run red with blood...but it never seems to happen. Doesn't stop 'em from bleating, though, does it?

[CPOSharky]

Looks like these cops have not bothered to look at any of the states that already have concealed and/or open carry much less the states that do not require permits.

(Oh my God, I saw a gun, call 911!)

[longtermmemmory]

It may come as a surprise, too, that the law does not require a permit holder to conceal the weapon, and that may generate more 911 calls, St. Paul Police Chief William Finney predicts.

WRONG, in part. You don't need a permit to carry OPENLY. Its a CONCEALED carry permit, not a CARRY permit.

What are these elected chiefs real problem? fear that crime may go down? Citizens may feal re-empowered and not beholding to police?

Every state that has CCW has had a decrease in crime.

[JudgemAll]

AH, shucks, any wish means a threat, and the wish for cops to not have to work hysterical callers who are false witnessing is just such a threat against law abiding citizens.

Carry a gun, and no one will wish anything on you, and threatless peace will reign.

[AdamSelene235]

Seems like CCW holders should get a tax break. After all, its the unarmed sheep that keep begging for a police state.

Let them pay for it.

[valkyrieanne]

They should get used to it. Armed people are free people.

[Balding_Eagle]

"We worked on a couple of new scenarios with rookies handling car stops with permit holders, where someone says, 'I have a gun and I have a permit' and you're (the trooper) standing outside their car door. What do you do? I don't have the answer," said Sgt. Al Freng, with the State Patrol's training academy.

Typical teacher, ignorant and unprepared for real life. And yet, put in charge of teaching others how to deal with the real world.

[antaresequity]

hanging on their hip like the cowboys used to,"

I think he meant to say: "hanging on their hip like the police do"

[Hat-Trick]

""The law doesn't say they have to be concealed, it says it could be on or about their person, so you're going to have people carrying their pistol in a holster, hanging on their hip like the cowboys used to," Finney said. "We're anticipating more people carrying a gun — partially concealed or concealed, and they're going to be some other people out there seeing this and feel their safety is threatened and they're going to call police."

[Mulder]

"We worked on a couple of new scenarios with rookies handling car stops with permit holders, where someone says, 'I have a gun and I have a permit' and you're (the trooper) standing outside their car door. What do you do? I don't have the answer," said Sgt. Al Freng, with the State Patrol's training academy.

How about this:

1) Stop acting as tax collectors for the state, and only make stops when you have probable cause or reasonable suspicion that a *real* crime has been committed.

2) Stop acting like wimps. A Free people have every Right to be armed, and the sight of an armed American should not be reason for cops to be afraid. Unless they just committed a felony or are strung out on drugs, it shouldn't matter if they are armed or not.