---
title: "A Cop’s Views On Concealed Carry"
date: "2008-07-14"
modified: "2008-07-14"
authors:
  - name: "Outdoor Life Online Editor"
    link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/outdoor-life-online-editor/"
url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/gun-shots/2008/07/cops-views-concealed-carry/"
categories:
  - "Concealed Carry"
  - "Guns"
---

# A Cop’s Views On Concealed Carry

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Cowtown Cop, who as far as I can tell just started blogging, offers his [perspective,](<https://cowtowncop.blogspot.com/2008/07/ccw-permits-from-law-enforcement.html/>) as a law-enforcement officer, on concealed carry permits. His verdict? He says during the course of a traffic stop when someone handed over his or her CCW permit his feeling was one of relief.

He also reinforces the common-sense notion, which rarely seems to occur to anti-gun folks, that the only person who can protect you, is you—and not the police.

Worth remembering.

*—John Snow*