When I first read about this I got a mental picture of a guy loading a case of bottled water in his cart. As he picks it up the carton breaks open and bottles go everywhere. As he bends over grumbling to pick up the mess, he exposes his piece and some dweeb yells gun. He tells the dweeb to chill cause he has a permit to carry but the dweeb won’t say OK no problem. The rest is history.
Thank you for those details, really makes me feel bad for that young man and his family. As usual, over reaction by a dweeb and paranoid police, I’ve seen a few of those.
In our area of Texas, as folks were gearing up with concealed handgun permits, deputies and small town cops were over-reacting to permitees who were advising that they had a permit (when stopped on minor traffic infractions) as required.
The permit holders were generally better trained in gun handling than many of the LEOs and kept a cool head under stressful situations as they were being yelled at and ordered to “get out! Stay put! Show your hands! Don’t show your hands! Get on the ground, the floorboard, lean on the trunk, the hood!” It was insane.
I drove up on one scene that three deputies were all hollering different orders at the same time. Never could figure out the need to be screaming at folks, a calm demeanor dampens a lot of iffy situations.