txbirddog wrote:So can someone please explain to me, WHY you wouldn't want to hand your license to a LEO in the first place. They are going to find out about it from dispatch whenever they run you license for warrants. I mean, it is not like a "secret" decoder ring that only has power when noone knows about it. I read posts on other forums and some states don't require it and those citizens are so adamant about not showing. I just don't get it.
Most of us are opposed to LEO's getting the information on their computers as well. There's not a 'registered gangbanger' flag, nor a 'democrat' or 'republican' flag. There isn't a 'Hunting License' Flag, etc.. why should there be a CHL Flag? Why should we, as CHL's, who have proven ourselves to be among the most law-abiding people through voluntary background checks and fingerprinting, be flagged?
Someone here once said that it comes up as Red Text on their screen. I don't know if that's true or not... but if anything, it should come up as GREEN Text.
We live in a world where Red means Stop or Bad, and Green means good or go. The connotations from the color of the text alone, if true, means that we are somehow viewed as negative. I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
However, with that said, While it is still the law, I will always show my CHL. But you can bet that I'll be doing whatever I can to promote the law being rescinded.
