1) I'm not trying to disarm my neighbor. I'm trying to ensure that all of the good folks in our society have the right to keep arms for the defense of themselves, their family, and their community.
Personally, that certainly may be so. Professionally, you may be (especially in CO...and SOON!) ordered to do exactly the opposite. Will you conscientiously object and refuse to enforce such a law? If not (and that would seem to be a huge decision to make, career wise) then you will be the public face of confiscation, mag bans, etc.
Why should the people of your state not work to hold you to the same standard they'll be placed under? What's in your heart won't matter in the least if you
are the arm of the government reaching out at them.
The chiefs don't care. ... They don't care, and they won't change. The only victims in this issue are all of the rest of us (police or not).
They don't care? Obviously they don't. BUT, several thousands (or tens of thousands) of their employees angry about these restrictions will go a whole lot farther to change their minds than several thousands or tens of thousands of their officers sitting fat and happy because they've got their rifles and mags, so who cares about the common folks?
The only way to make change that goes contrary to political personalities' desires is to make them so uncomfortable (and/or scared for their jobs) that they choose the correct path in order to stop the pain or fear. And one of the only possible ways of putting pressure on these goons is secondarily, by putting the same pressure on their officers that is put on the rest of the citizens. Yeah, that's you and your brother officers. I am sorry about that. But that's politics. If you don't like it, help us turn the chiefs and politicos around.
In my fight to ensure that we all have gun rights, I haven't found that the most effectual way to ensure those rights is to make sure that we disarm more people ... Why not focus our efforts on stopping these laws, rather than focusing on what appears to be thinly-veiled punitive measures against law enforcement officers? ... I own my own AR-15, which I carry as a patrol rifle, and lets just say that I'm already well set on magazines.
So you've got yours. That's what you're saying? You've got yours and it isn't fair to make these unavailable to law officers, just because they are forbidden to the public at large? I hear what you're saying, but it rings very, very hollow. I'm glad you have your rifle and your mags. How will you feel when you're enforcing that ban on your neighbor? It's coming soon, Kevin, in your state. What will YOU do?