Sanford won't force Neighborhood Watch volunteers to leave guns at home

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Source: Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, FLA. — The Sanford Police Department is backing off a proposal to ban Neighborhood Watch members from carrying guns, but it still wants volunteers to leave their firearms at home and will make that recommendation at a community meeting Tuesday night, police Chief Cecil Smith said Monday.

"We originally came out with a stern, 'You should not,' " Smith said. "We took a second look at it."

Smith now recommends that people forgo their guns while they are performing their Neighborhood Watch duties. Smith said he could legally have dictated a ban, but he decided it was better to include people rather than to exclude them.

"We want people to feel as though they are part of a movement," Smith said. "And it's smarter for us to say, listen, if you're going to be a part of it, you need to abide by the rules. And it's a voluntary organization and if you choose not to be a part of it, you don't have to be a part of it."



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[Blue_Tires]

1. Maybe they can instead force Neighborhood Watch volunteers

to NOT view all black men walking down the sidewalk as fuckin' criminals....

That would be a good start...

[groundloop]

2. All those volunteers need to be armed with is a cell phone

Having a weapon will only invite more tragedy, those stupid idiots whose manhood lives in a holster don't need to be neighborhood watch volunteers if they can't get through their idiot heads that their job is to WATCH and not intervene.

[Jerry442]

3. Sanford Florida, where the Neighborhood Watch Program is NOT a lynch mob because...

....ummmm.......ohhhhhhhh.......errrrrr........Somebody help us out here.

[hughee99]

4. Is that slogan from their misprinted t-shirts? I think it's SUPPOSED to say

"Sanford Florida, where the Neighborhood Watch Program is NOT JUST a lynch mob"

Probably all the same, though, since the many people in that neck of the woods don't understand what the word "just" means.