content: Except he is also a fucking idiot, as most of the cop-hating people in this country are - particularly as it applies to situations like this. It's a simple idea. You know how cops work in traffic stops. You know what they are about and what they are doing. They know nothing about you. Every traffic stop is a total unknown. Many cops have died approaching a "routine" traffic stop in the "routine" way, because of artifice. People can hide their intentions, and literally anyone can get the jump on a cop. Asking if someone has a firearm in the car is a legitimate way to protect themselves, and its something they need to know. Withholding that information just to be a "free man" is completely idiotic and disrespectful of someone trying to do their fucking job. But oh yeah, everyone hates cops until the moment they need one. You'd rather have streets and communities policed - and if you are of the opinion you wouldn't, you're wrong, you do - but when they attempt to do a job in a way that makes it safer for them (given a city of 10,000 people will usually have a cop:citizen ratio of around 1:750), you get all up in arms, because you can't possibly submit your right to be a prick and not claim you have a gun. That's such an important "right" these evil fascist cops are trying to stomp. Get a clue you fucking retards. Having a policed community, which is a good thing as it deters a huge amount of crime, requires submission to some degree. You don't get to be a special flower and demand each cop treat every individual like their own unique snowflake. They have to operate by procedure. If you want a safer community, you submit to a certain degree, in the same way everyone else does as well, for the overall benefit. If it means 10 minutes of inconvenience rarely, get the fuck over it, and think more about what it would be like if you lived in a fucking free for all.  One of the reasons we have all been able to specialize and create a complex society is because we turned the job of protecting our homes and places of trade over to a police force. Without that, you'd never leave your home. Imagine human beings 10 or 20 millennia ago. Could they have ever just walked away from their dwelling for 12 hrs at a time and left it unattended? Could women and children have walked down a pathway by themselves regularly with no males to supervise? Of course not. The job of deterring crime was something that freed everyone in society up to a great deal more freedom, because they didn't have to spend so many of their own resources (time primarily) like they would have in an anarchic free-for-all society.