LEO 229 wrote:
Why are you focusing on cops alone when far more citizens are involved in gun related dangers?
There are also more citizens than cops. By a long shot. Armed ones, too.
The rates are disproportionate. Further, most citizen-induced dangers are accidents, NDs and the like. Most of the time nobody gets hurt.
The simple fact is, as you with your experience very well know, citizens very rarely stop drivers and end up killing the unarmed occupant(s).
Armed citizens don't go looking for trouble. Cops do. This is the inherent difference between the two, and why I seek to treat them differently.
BTW, a citizen has a right to bear arms, but he doesn't have a right to require his employer allow him to be armed while on the job. The employer retains his right to make only those contracts he darn well pleases to enter into. The people, as employer of the police, can similarly set any rules they darn well please with regards to how and the extent to which officers arm themselves
while on the job.