Reply #12: Hence my use of the word "if."

[petronius]

Speaking generally, I'd be very opposed to police giving a person 'special treatment' based on a bumper sticker or any other non-threatening political expression. I'd be just as opposed if police used an angry or agitated response to that treatment as the basis for an arrest, detention, or anything else. (Firearms-related or not, I can't really think of a bumper sticker I'd exclude from that.)

Apparently, in this specific case, the jury thought that neither of those circumstances applied (and if the person disagrees with that result, I hope he'll avail himself of the appeals process)...