I believe that there is a misconception amongst some that because enforcement individuals carry an array of weaponry, he/she looks for reasons to draw/use them. I strongly disagree (well, I never casually disagree). The minute that the weapon is drawn/deployed -- even to the lightest degree -- things become very complicated for all involved. No one really
wants to go there.
In a past life, when all things work and recreation required some sort of armed escort ( see similar:
Fighting drugs and border violence at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument ), I would duck out of being one of the "armed" parts of the escort, because for the most part,for anyone who had to draw a weapon, the ensuing paperwork that followed was inconvenient. If there was a reasonable chance that I could outrun the situation, I chose to forgo being armed, and wore trainers, instead.
