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Originally Posted by fragtagninja
Perhaps we should explore this a bit more. Police are always on duty in a way. My dad carried a pistol on him every time he went out the door. If he encountered a serious crime in progress he would have stopped it. That said what of MP's? They are federal law enforcement. However they do not operate under the same rules as civilian police. So would it be okay for an MP to carry the same way Leo's do? Or is that getting to close to martial law? I am of course against giving anyone special rights, but the OP has a point. Could this open up grounds for getting CCW for civilians in DC?
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No way.
That "Foot in the door" argument was foisted off on us by a lot of LEOs several years ago when HR 218 (which became the LEOSA) was being debated in Congress. LEOs appeared in droves on every "gun" forum on the Internet, asking us all to support them in getting national carry, and promising that once we helped them get it, they'd help us get it.
Well, we helped, and they got it. How much LEO support have you seen anywhere since then for national concealed carry reciprocity for "civilians"? None, that's how much. This would be just more of the same -- another group of special people who are allowed to exercise their Constitutional RKBA while the majority of the populace is not.
MPs are not cops. If an MP sees a bank robbery in progress, he has exactly as much (and as little) authority to intervene as you do.
If anything, passing something like this would only delay getting legal carry for citizens in DC. It wouldn't help anything.