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Samuel Colt was more succinct.Well said.
Samuel Colt was more succinct.Well said.
As am I!I am surprised and troubled by your attitude towards law enforcement officers.
There are officers in both sides. Running as EMS speed me to work hand in hand with many of them.Most people that mistrust law enforcement are criminals or people that don’t really know someone in law enforcement.
This is the line that perplexed me "As a white middle class American male, I don’t really need a gun, and don’t own one, because I’m reasonably sure the police would show up in a hurry if I were in trouble." Followed by all the anti cop rhetoric. He does certainly need to rethink that one, as Taliv pointed out the police cannot protect us nor do they have the duty to, they can't that's our job.
If I understand you correctly, "what you already knew" is that most police officers that you had experience with were in the professional due to a desire to help those in need. Did I understand you correctly?When I saw the video of all the NYPD officers rushing back INTO the WTC as the towers were burning, it reaffirmed what I already knew.
I think you would be surprised at the number of gun owning 'liberals'....Imagine, a liberal who understands - and agrees with - the real purpose of the Second Amendment.
So, from reading this it seems that the author supports the right but personally declines the responsibility to rely on others,(the police), for his families safety..?
sorry it came across that way. it was not my intent to insult any profession.I just love it when someone insults my profession based on the actions of a few in a topic. And then states that they don’t want the topic to turn into a LEO bashing.
I believe that everyone should own a gun for protection.sorry it came across that way. it was not my intent to insult any profession.
again, i'm not bashing LEOs or their profession. or insulting them. I'm just saying individuals cannot depend on them for protection, for lots of reasons, and therefore individuals should be responsible for their own safety.
taliv is 100% correct, no matter how much we admire and appreciate LEO members, you can't depend on them to always be there at the moment help is needed, it just simply isn't a reasonable expectation of time and resources.
Yes.If I understand you correctly, "what you already knew" is that most police officers that you had experience with were in the professional due to a desire to help those in need. Did I understand you correctly?
I read the article and it was about as good as a crap filled chocolate cake. At first it looks good but once you really got into it, it starts to leave a bad taste in your mouth. It appears to have been written by a moderate liberal.I'm surprised at the direction this thread turned (well, not really, since that tends to happen every time "law enforcement" is mentioned; perhaps that should be as taboo a phrase as the phrase "NRA" has been lately.)
In post 25, I called out what I hoped was a typo in post 14. The lack of a response indicates it apparently wasn't.
Based on what I have read in this thread, before posting number 25, and since, I'm glad I didn't read the article.
Most people that mistrust law enforcement are criminals or people that don’t really know someone in law enforcement.
I never said that their weren’t any bad cops out there, but for ever bad one out there there are hundreds of good ones.Having been victimized by one local PD officer that used "entrapment" on me (and a female lawyer who failed to inform me of "exemptions" to the charge), another that perjured himself in court (but I won the case), a third that said "I don't care about the law. I'm gonna book you anyway!" (case dismissed before trial when complaint was filed), and their captain who went into a rage in his office and had a shouting match with me, I probably have reason to distrust this particular department. When all you seem to get are "bad apples", you are likely to be disillusioned.