Back when I was in the Navy Reserve one of our aircrewmen was a Chicago area cop who had been raised out in the Montana or Wyoming. He told the story that sometime in his first year as a cop he pulled some guy over for speeding and saw a pistol in the front seat. Being from the West he didn’t think a thing of it and just gave the guy a ticket and sent him on his way. Later, at the station, he mentioned it to another cop and got in trouble for not drawing down on the guy and arresting him. His advice to all of us was to keep our guns out of sight and not mention them unless specifically asked.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
