The "Escaped convicted could steal it" argument seems specious at best. What's he more likely to do, smash out and search car after car after car until he finds a gun? Or, run like hell to get as fast away as possible?
All I can assume, is that you didn't read the post. I flashed him because he pulled out in front of me while I was driving thru a green light.Don't **** off other drivers by flashing your lights. You acknowledge you don't have any way to "defend" yourself, why did you instigate the situation in the first place?
Driving home from work, disarmed because I was at work and we can't have guns in our vehicles at work due to the law.I fail to see how any of this has anything to do with you being a CO.
He was probably wearing the uniform on the way home.
OP- Don't draw attention to yourself in ANY way especially if you're unarmed. Maybe change before leaving work if you're unwilling to keep a weapon in the car and risk getting fired.
Bob
YesDoes the Prison have the "right" to search your vehicle while in the lot? With or without you present?
1) why can't the OP use the OC spray issued by his employer? (asking because I don't know)
2) is it possible to park off the property but close enough for a short walk (that way you wouldn't be breaking the law by having a gun in your car?
Is TRUE the word you're looking for? He instigated the encounter just as if he had flipped the guy off. If he had done NOTHING, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now. Someone pisses YOU off, you retaliate by flashing your lights, then you whine when there is a confrontation and you don't have a way to defend yourself.
Same story as that lady in Las Vegas that got her head blown off. If her daughter hadn't honked their horn at that guy, he wouldn't have stopped and the whole situation wouldn't have evolved as it did.
as I said in my op, i was in a parking spot, getting ready to go into the store for my son's cupcakes.You know what I can't seem to wrap my head around in the OP's story? Once they other guy got out and started pounding on the OP's car, why on earth would you stick around to see what happens? HIT THE FRIGGIN GAS DUDE!!! Leave the moron in a cloud of dust. Confrontation over.
So, because the State can't ensure that they fulfill their responsibility to keep prisoners inside the prison, the people who work at the facility have to endure a denial of their natural rights, even outside the prison?
Maybe that would be reason to consider not using the shiny gold "CO" license plate?
I have a Disabled Veteran License Plate, the gold one with the handicap Icon. Nothing CO about it...
as I said in my op, i was in a parking spot, getting ready to go into the store for my son's cupcakes.
I have a Disabled Veteran License Plate, the gold one with the handicap Icon. Nothing CO about it...
Ah, my mistake. I don't think I've seen that one before - or if I did, I don't remember it.
I thought that might have been how the guy made you as a CO and caused him to go all road-rage on you.
The whole "inmate could quickly become armed" is a valid concern. But I'll play. Why a steel mill? Or, in my case, a title 10 nuclear facility? Better still, if your company has a "security" office and you have to badge through a gate to enter the parking lot, then it falls under "privately secured facility".
What really grinds my gears about the whole thing is what if I'm not going home after work?