You've already provided your years of experience as a cop to clear up whether or not cops are civilians. Now you're backpedaling by using Webster's or Oxford to contradict what your years of experience already taught you? You're arguing with yourself on this point.
"Referring" to non-cops as civilians doesn't make it "just the way it is," and thinking of cops as something akin to military doesn't make it "just the way it is" either. Is you is, or is you ain't a civilian as a cop? It's a constitutional question, which I do know makes it inexplicably difficult for cops to accept the realities of across a host of subjects, but here's a hint - you already answered correctly in one of the quotes above. You're not a "special" citizen or civilian just because you were a cop, you're just another retired citizen/civilian.
That's just the way it is.
Blushell has admitted that he is OCD in
this thread. "Clinically diagnosed" even. He said he "knows how to use it" in the context of arguing legal questions ad nauseum even in the face of incontrovertible evidence of him being dead wrong on the legal questions being bandied about in that thread. You will never get a concession from him about CC not being offensive under the law, or that drawing from concealment is somehow necessarily a retaliatory act. Apparently, if I read
his post about OCD correctly, he's pre-wired to stubbornly and irrationally refuse admitting to being wrong.
Anyway, this is amusing as all get-out watching y'all argue over a wholly made-up premise that has no basis in fact or law. It's hard to know who to root for - the guy who open carries even though he argues absurdities as his rationale for doing so, or the retired cop who, like most cops, thinks "that's just the way it is" is a valid substitute for a constitutional argument based in legal realities.
I've been recuperating for the last three days from a ~2,500 mile round-trip motorcycle ride o D.C. for Rolling Thunder. I planned on posting some pics and my impressions of the event(s) somewhere around here, and might still do that, but watching dumb arguments like this one as a spectator was so mind-numbing I couldn't get my act together to put up a post about it. I think I'll sleep for another three days and see how things are going then before I decide.
Blues