This argument swings both ways yea know:
If a Network Engineer doesn't like the benefits that come with that job, well then quit, and find an LEO job if carrying everywhere is such a big deal. I am sick of non-LEOs complaining about how they can't carry guns everywhere, blah blah blah. I am sick and tired of saying it is a horrible thing that I get to protect myself and my family from danger that lurks around given my choose career field. Instead of complaining about LEOs carrying almost everywhere (which wasn't even the case until a very recent federal law change), why not work with groups to get your rights to carry recognized by other states? By the way, any state could easily file a lawsuit against the federal law, saying that it violates state rights, and I think they might win. They don't want to do this because most municipalities likely would welcome the help and knowledge that LEOs might be able to provide if need be.
We used the system with job related issues, just like you have, or likely would. What would you say if tomorow the law changed and it allowed for your employer to work you an extra 20 hours, with no extra pay? Or, what if they said that your employer had to pay you, but it was straight pay, no over-time? Using your logic, people shouldn't complain about anything, they should just quit, move, etc.. So I don't want to come back here reading a message from you where you are complaining about taxes...you should just stop working and paying taxes, or move to an area of the Earth where you are happy with their tax system. Oh, don't complain about gun control either, you are free to move to Somalia where you can OC a fully automatic AK-47 in urban areas.
See how your logic works? _Any_ complaint can be met with "well, just don't do that!" "just leave that area!" "Just move away!" "Just do it anyway!" Attacking the reason why LEOs just recently got nationwide carry is laughable. Focus your energy on having more states share permit reciprocity than attacking the reason LEOs go it.
So, just because you are a LEO, gives you the RIGHT to defend yourself and your family, and the rest of us NON-LEO slugs are just S**T Out of Luck. What the hell is that all about? Plus as the Supreme Court ruled, police have NO Constitutional duty to protect someone, ONLY to enforce the law. So, in your way of thinking, it's no big deal that I cant defend myself. I should wait until LEO gets "on scene" to clean up the mess left behind after myself or one of my family members is robbed/raped/murdered whatever. As for being able to carry with me, that is MY SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT, and how any state/federal government law can restrict that is beyond me.
And about the job, YES, that exact thing happened to me, I was told I would still have to work OT, and NOT get any extra pay for it, basically I went from hourly to salary with NO OT pay. I pissed and moaned, and took my grievance all the way up the "Chain of Command" and I was told it was up to the individual business as to if they wanted to pay OT or not, and that since I was a Network Engineer I no longer qualified for OT pay. Did I leave the job, almost, why because of the pay, I dont go to work for ANY other reason than the money, they stop paying, I stop working, PERIOD.
So my question to you, and any other LEO out there is this hypothetical situation, I am carrying and lets say on school property, a BG comes into the school, on the property, wherever, and because I am carrying, I am able to stop the BG from whatever they were going to do, or at least mitigate the situation from going from bad to worse, they start shooting students, and I shoot and take them out. WILL YOU ARREST ME? I would say, YES, even though I saved lives such as my own or others, and stopped a crazed killer, I am the one who will end up in jail, and most likely convicted of a felony because I carried into/onto school property. Does that sound good to you? I doubt it, but if you were the LEO called to the scene, I would still be just as under arrest as if I were the bad guy.
As fro changing laws, and getting nationwide reciprocity, well that was tried and failed, why because of the worthless legislators that are in DC now. I have attended TEA parties, and written my elected officials, and attended town hall meetings, but it doesnt do any good. So by the way I take it, what you are saying is to be able to defend myself and my family, wherever I happen to be, I MUST be a LEO, and that is just it, like it or not. Well sir, I respectfully disagree with you, and will until the day I die, just because my career path took me down the Network Engineering path, doesnt mean I have any less rights than you.
INGunGuy