Open Carry Radio

I’ve been accused of tying up police resources and time when Citizens call in a Man-with-a-Gun (MWAG) call to 911. This is ridiculous, dispatchers are trained to ask questions about the crime or emergency that the person is calling about. So if the dispatcher assesses that the MWAG has his gun holstered and is minding his own business then they can inform the caller that they should call back when a crime has been committed. Or tell the caller they’ll send out someone to check it out but emphasize that if no crime is being committed that the officer will be leaving.

I’m reminded of a story my wife told me when we were dating. I met her in Tennessee, where she had grown up her entire life. One year she got a new school teacher from out of state.
The teacher came in telling the story of the barn fire she had witnessed while driving into school. She had called 911. The dispatcher asked her some strange questions like “Do you see any flames?”. The students who most of which spent their summers on the tobacco farms got a good laugh.

You see the teacher had witnessed a barn used to smoke “dark fire” tobacco. The dispatcher knew this and explained to the woman that everything was fine but that she’d call down to that farm to double check.

You see you can apply common sense to situations and not over react.