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Originally Posted by dmorris68
It has also been said many times: LEO's don't respond to a shooting and look for badges -- bad guys can easily get official looking badges too, the local pawn shops are overflowing with all kinds of badges that you can't read from more than 5-10 feet away. If they respond and see an unrecognized, excited individual with a gun who does not immediately stand down or convincingly identify themselves as good guys within about a fraction of a second, then they will quite likely shoot regardless of whether a badge is visible or not. There have been some undercover/off-duty officers shot on the job because responding patrol units didn't know they were LEO, and I'm sure they were identifying themselves as such.
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I agree, I'm adamently against badges, or anything else that isn't
defense related. I was just pointing out that if you flash a badge and still appear as if you are wishing harm on somebody, the badge isn't going to make a difference, you are going to be hurtin when they start punching holes in you.