Reply #27: You like having your car searched at a checkpoint? [View All]

[RamboLiberal]

Or when you're stopped for a traffic violation? I know there are probably a few DU'ers here who like to do a little pot. Think it should be legalized. If you don't grow your own then how did you get it home? IMHO we cede too much authority to the police over our privacy.

I go to gun competitions often out of my state. Guns are in the back. Unloaded. Locked. Ammo in separate locked box. And yet I still worry am I following the "letter" of the law in that state for transporting the firearm through the state. Or even will I run in to that cop that doesn't know the laws of his/her state and makes my life a hassle.
Hell, I wouldn't even travel through NY or Massachusetts for fear of their laws.

What if the cop doesn't like the clutter in the back of my SUV and asks to search the vehicle? I have nothing to hide so do I grant it or do I stonewall the cop and then have to sit on the side of the road for awhile? Even if I don't have the firearms in the car. I carry backups of my prescrip meds in a small baggie in a box. And some fennel seed tablets. Will the cop think them illegal drugs?

Sorry, but I think we are giving up our rights with checkpoints! I'll go along with TSA checkpoints inside the airport but you have to admit some of this has become dumbass. I doubt if terrorists will ever hijack planes again, not because of the checkpoints but because passengers would fight back. I wouldn't rule out a bombing though, but I'd bet the terrorists could figure a way to get a bomb onboard the plane via checked luggage or in another manner the TSA wouldn't catch.