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Originally Posted by buggyone
Ah yes, the Sheepdogs are going to be protecting all of us stupid sheep. I found this article one piece of ridiculousness.
The ones who have their concealed carry permits are remiss in their civic duties if they do not carry a pistol everytime they venture into the streets of The Villages is going too far overboard.
I will concede that law enforcement officers need to be armed. Not retired law enforcement officers, but ones on active duty and even off duty.
The Villages is one of the safest places you can live. Naturally, I will see the comeback that the bad guys know so many Villagers pack heat and therefore are scared to come here. More ridiculousness!
If the murder rate mentioned by the author is 6 per 100,000, The Villages should be having at least 6 murders per year. How many years has it been since a murder took place?
We thank you for your duty as a law enforcement officer but you have now retired. Leave it to the active duty law enforcement officers and play golf and relax in this wonderful community.
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I doubt if the retired police officers carry firearms while they are just going out in the Villages unless they have some valid reason to do this. There is that odd one that carries when he or she probably should have left it at home like with the Tampa police officer. But, then if one of the people had been carrying at the Aurora movie theater? The Aurora and the Wesley Chapel community members probably thought that something like that could never happen in their community either.
I see some retired police officers quite often at some of the places I frequent in the Villages and they never appear to be carrying any kinds of weapons. I would think that a perceptive person would be able to tell when someone else has a gun on their person.