This is purely hypothetical. I am not anti authority just posing a question..
LEO's are people, people can make bad decisions. Is there an acceptable situation to draw on a uniformed leo, if so what? What if an UC LEO made you feel threatened? In general I do not trust people, and I think most of us law abiding citizens who carry have a similar sentiment. Dirty cops make up the slimmest of margins, but there will always be a bad actor in any populous.
I am not talking about being lawfully detained, or being noncompliant here. I am thinking at what point does it go from law enforcement to endangerment by a law enforcer? What would the aftermath be even if it were legal self defense? I would never want to be in such a situation, but these are the weird things I think about while trying to block out the smell of the deuce i'm laying down on the the $hi**#&.
Bad example I know, but in 2006-2008 I was stationed at Holloman AFB in New Mexico, we would go to Juarez, Mexico on a regular basis. My friends and I were regularly detained by federali. They would grab us just after walking off of the bridge, put us on the wall at gunpoint, grab our wallets, and put them back with less money in them than when they grabbed them. We took it in stride and joked it off as the Reverse Immigration Tax. Looking back we were idiots to just visit the murder capitol of the world so nonchalantly on top of getting blacked out stupid and hoping that our stumbling would lead us back to the "safety" of El Paso. I do not foresee our society taking a nose dive into those types of deplorable conditions, but if I were carrying would I/Should I put up with getting mugged by uniformed LEO's?
Again I am not anti police. I am compliant with traffic stops and I appreciate the hard work our LEO's do.
LEO's are people, people can make bad decisions. Is there an acceptable situation to draw on a uniformed leo, if so what? What if an UC LEO made you feel threatened? In general I do not trust people, and I think most of us law abiding citizens who carry have a similar sentiment. Dirty cops make up the slimmest of margins, but there will always be a bad actor in any populous.
I am not talking about being lawfully detained, or being noncompliant here. I am thinking at what point does it go from law enforcement to endangerment by a law enforcer? What would the aftermath be even if it were legal self defense? I would never want to be in such a situation, but these are the weird things I think about while trying to block out the smell of the deuce i'm laying down on the the $hi**#&.
Bad example I know, but in 2006-2008 I was stationed at Holloman AFB in New Mexico, we would go to Juarez, Mexico on a regular basis. My friends and I were regularly detained by federali. They would grab us just after walking off of the bridge, put us on the wall at gunpoint, grab our wallets, and put them back with less money in them than when they grabbed them. We took it in stride and joked it off as the Reverse Immigration Tax. Looking back we were idiots to just visit the murder capitol of the world so nonchalantly on top of getting blacked out stupid and hoping that our stumbling would lead us back to the "safety" of El Paso. I do not foresee our society taking a nose dive into those types of deplorable conditions, but if I were carrying would I/Should I put up with getting mugged by uniformed LEO's?
Again I am not anti police. I am compliant with traffic stops and I appreciate the hard work our LEO's do.