So because you or your friends have never harmed a soul, then everyone with a gun are good guys right? The fact is, your right to carry a gun doesn't give you the right to make people feel unsafe. Can you carry your gun? Yeah sure, go ahead. But if people feel unsafe by the presence of your gun, then you should do better to keep it concealed. Why do people at a school have to see your gun?
Hun, the list of people who see my gun is very small. I use the terms firearm, rifle, and handgun for a reason. There's an old Marine Corps ritual that explains the difference. The term 'gun' is to be reserved for penile innuendoes and to refer to a class of large-bore weapons used aboard ships and some land vehicles.
The problem is that people do not have the right to tell me to conceal any weapon I may be carrying. In fact, without a permit, it is illegal to conceal the firearm. Police officers, particularly, are not to conceal their firearms unless in an undercover role. The holster used is relatively specific to the form factor of the firearm and often acts to reinforce the safety features of the firearm.
Your sidearm is always carried in Condition 1. A round is in the chamber. The safety on most police service weapons is three actions - moving the firing pin out of alignment with the primer of the round, physically blocking the hammer from striking the firing pin, and preventing the depressing of the trigger. Most also decock the weapon - meaning a double-action trigger pull is necessary to fire the weapon (the spring on the hammer/firing pin is brought out of tension).
The holster reinforces these, or in the case of some weapons - replaces the function of these multiple redundant systems. Removing the weapon from the holster, under any responsible police district, will prompt an investigation into the officer's use of force or intent to use force.
What you're asking for is just silly, for starters. It's not like the officer is brandishing a weapon. He's simply got it where it's supposed to be - where it always is.
Further - what I'm saying is that your argument is ridiculous.
I just handled a semi-auto shotgun (bullpup design) that I could easily conceal within several garments I have - with plenty of ammo. You would never know I had a firearm until I'd already gotten exactly where I wanted to before using it.
The notion that someone openly carrying a firearm is an indicator of that person's threat level is just ridiculous. For all anyone around me ever knows - I'm packing enough firepower to bring down a SWAT team. Or I'm completely unarmed with no more than a pen to use as an improvised weapon. Nothing about that changes if I wear the pen and/or firearms openly or concealed.
Obviously, if it's seen as 'unusual' or 'dangerous' to open-carry firearms, and I wish to kill someone - I will not walk around displaying a weapon. Particularly if I'm an individual with a history of crime and am a felon who is not supposed to have a firearm in the first place. I'd just concealed-carry (illegally) and kill someone (illegally) with a firearm that I acquired (illegally).
That's where all of this "no gun" stuff just approaches insanity. The people who were never a threat to begin with follow the laws that deliberately diminish their ability to defend themselves. The people who follow the laws are not the problem.
That's not what I mean. In this case, the guy regularly drops his daughter off. Meaning, this isn't just some one-time occurrence that be brushed off. If he's there every day with generally the same people, then he's just being inconsiderate. A car is a big thing, there's plenty of ways for you to have your gun, but not have it showing and making people feel uncomfortable.
He's in uniform. He's dropping his daughter off on his way to work.
Or do you not understand the concept and purpose of a police uniform?
You don't have a right, in this country, to not be offended by the rights expressly granted to others. I'm offended by the fact that liberals exist. Much less that they are given the right to assemble and spread their stupidity. They still get to do it.
I just get to turn the TV off or to go do something else (well, except for the fact that they'll eventually pass a law that I have to attend their sensitivity training, or some nonsense like that).
Generally speaking, however - I would go out of my way to show you that I have a firearm. Just to get a rise out of you. If you leave and don't ever want to do business with me in the future - I really don't consider it much of a loss. The entertainment value in driving you away was more valuable to me than the stress of having to put up with your existence.
Usually, though, most people who are nervous around firearms have just never had much experience with them. A few hours on a shooting range with them, teaching them proper handling and letting them get some trigger time in will have them shopping for one of their own.
Being afraid of a firearm is like being afraid of a pipe wrench, calculator, or cellular phone.
To be honest - I pay more attention to what someone is doing with their phone than I do to the fact some guy around me has a firearm in view. People planning to cause trouble often take pictures or video before hand. They'll survey the target for days - even weeks.
It's that kind of basic stuff that will allow you to detect threats and trouble. The weapons of any good predator are adaptive and varied. The look in their eye is what doesn't change.
