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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bettingpython" data-source="post: 915777" data-attributes="member: 4307">I wasn't so much disturbed by the mayors refrence to the suspension of rights as I was in his lack of understanding the difference between rights and priveledge in the context of driving. There is no right to drive in most states it is a priveledge and as such we must agree to certain regulations i.e. the surrender of our DL and inusrance information on request to an officer who has just cause to stop us, our 1st, 2nd, and most importantly 4th amendment rights have not been suspended in any way. The Mayor needs to educate himself on the differnce between rights and priveledges. As a CCW holder I have agreed to certain regulations as they pertain to officer safety during official contact. Their is no suspension of my 2nd amendment right so much as I have voluntarily agreed to cooperate to the fullest extent by notifying an officer of the fact that I have a weapon and allow him based upon his training and instinct decide what he needs to do in order to insure his safety during the duration of our contact.I haven't listened to the full conversation but I suspect the mayor misspoke and the gentelman involved is probably is upset at a perceived violation of his "rights" when he was in fact driving under a priveledge system and was ticketed and or charged for violation of some laws.Of course that was shreveport Louisiana and La. law is based upon napoleonic code and not british common law so their could well be a right to drive as part of that states constitution. Just my .02</blockquote>

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