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Originally Posted by Plan9
Nobody with half a brain would have gone for a concealed handgun in those circumstances. I'm curious as to who you "know" who'd do that.
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I imagine I have at *least* 3/4 of a brain, and I think I might've. If I'd seen the uniformed officer in the badged car in my motorcycle's mirror, perhaps.. but if someone cut over in front of me like that on my motorcycle they've already endangered me (if not threatened me with a deadly weapon) and then they get out with a gun? It's a very narrow window of time before he identifies himself and the marked car pulls up, but I think I'd at least be instinctively reaching for it by then. If I do CCW on the motorcycle, though.. it's under my jacket or in my backpack. I know I wouldn't have it in my hands in this amount of time anyway..
I understand the knee-jerk to Will's vaguely guised "crazy man with a gun" characterization, but I think it'd be fair to say that some CCW-carriers would be reaching or un-snapping or gripping if someone they didn't recognize immediately as a police officer did this.. when I first watched the video I thought he was just a vigilante trying to stop someone they saw speeding.. I've had my fair encounters with civilians who thought it was their civic duty to endanger my life just to enforce a traffic law.