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No the guns didn't deter me, just got my attention. I worked in a very rural area. Most of the time I simply asked if the weapon was loaded. If the person told me no I left it at that. Now if I pulled someone over and asked them about the weapon and they respond with 'Why the fuck did you pull me over? I pay your fucking wages and my gun is none of your fucking business." That person's getting a ticket for every infraction I can nail them for and could end up in custody if they do something completely stupid.
I didn't issue tickets because for the most part people were driving on empty roads and not driving in a dangerous fashion. Somewhere along the line tickets went from being a safety issue to a revenue source. That general philosophy seems misplaced to me. Giving someone a $200 ticket for going 11 miles over the speed limit on a empty country road is simply an attempt to increase funding not improve traffic safety, IMO. Giving people a ticket who roll through a stop sign at 4am in the middle of no where, after clearly looking both ways, falls in that category too. It I could see they didn't even look for traffic I might well write them up or at least stop and warn. Face it most people drive 10-15 miles over. Most people roll trough the stop sign at their corner if they work at 4am. To me it seemed like a tax on people being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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