I had an interesting series of emails exchanged with Neil's office... I think they're archived on my work computer.  I'll post them this week if I can find them.

Interested in the responses as well but I'm wary/skeptical, and not in a paranoid way. It is election season and the campaign knows that they have to be appealing to all groups to garner as much votes as possible.

Abercrombie is a career politician, and a very anti-gun one. I would personally love to see a positive change in Hawaii's gun laws but this is an ugly election year outcome.

LEOs have what is called SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY. Research that. This is the reason why LEOs don't worry about JACKSHIT when the bust your ass, anyone elses ass, or anything else they do.

LEOs CCW because they work for the State. Because the State wants to maintain the ability to KILL anyone at any given time.

For these reasons they appear to be magical.

I have family who are police officers and I plan on joining the force as well and never did I get the sense of being "magical". Yes some local cops have an attitude but so do cops elsewhere. Let's face it, no one is going respect the officer who speaks soft and nice to the guy beating on his wife or meth-heads.

Cliche as it sounds I still believe most officers never want to draw their weapon on anyone, much less take a life. They are trained to do so but as a last resort to protect the community as well as themselves. No disrespect but your reply is just the kind of thing that makes gun owners look bad.

Hawaii is too liberal and left a state to accept the idea that it's citizens are trustworthy. Even if by a miracle we pass a more reasonable CCW law here, all it would take is one mishap by a citizen and you'd politicians and people demanding a complete ban on CCW.

Yes, police officers are people just like the rest of us. We all make mistakes but when a police officer is involved in a shooting there is less of an impact than if a citizen were to do so. An entire police force can't have their weapons confiscated because of a accidental shooting.

I'm not saying us as citizens shouldn't be allowed to have weapons at the ready, I've been looking at my own attempt to get a CCW but I know my chances are nil.

Hoping Abercrombie doesn't win but all the polls puts him in the lead.

I'm very curious as to how this will affect Hawaii since we're seen as one of the strictest/most anti-gun states.

Maybe I'm being too optimistic but maybe it would lift the "assault pistol" ban or make concealed carry much easier to obtain? One can dream.