I See What You're Saying
but it's apples to oranges, as they say.
Murderers are private individuals that indeed are accountable for their actions. If other individuals get it in their head that anyone who owns a weapon is potential murderer, well, that is well within their rights. They can even preach it on the street corner if they so desire. They can remove all potentially dangerous objects from among their own personal possessions. What they can't do, legally at any rate, is force all others to do disarm as well.
Anything you do can and will influence others' opinion of yourself. That's a given.
The difference here is our politicians and law enforcement agencies are supposed to serve the public. There is now a substantial history that suggests that these public servants have not been executing their duties in a manner that is uniformly consistent with the interests of liberty. In a situation such as this it is logical that these institutions be evaluated and restructured in such a way to bring them back in line with the interests of freedom.
As far as any individual politician or law enforcement officer goes, I'm sure there are plenty who are perfectly decent on a personal level. That doesn't mean there isn't still a problem with the big picture. Law enforcement agencies are pretty much amoral. That can be good if your laws and lawmakers are moral and just. When the masters of your cops are crooked, when the cops are enforcing laws that are either unjust or just plain illegal, then dispassionate amorality can be a bad thing. If your job is to enforce or enact unjust/illegal laws then you are on the wrong side. It'd be like if I were the grand poobah of PETA(ethical treatment, not eating tasty) but worked in some kind of chainsaw-massacre-style slaughterhouse.
Who needs a revolution? I'm saying fix a broken system. Be that as it may, where's this supposed revolution going to come from anyway? The militia/patriot movement? ha! How about Joe Average just trying to quietly make his way in the world? Not likely. Nah, there is no pending revolution, not even if they sent BATmen to round up all our firearms tommorow. I have pretty much no desire to kill my fellow citizens in some civil war. But go ahead, let things continue to go the direction they're going. Take a look in two hundred years and see what's happened to our country. I doubt you'd recognize it, I doubt you'd want to live there. History has again and again shown us exactly what brings about oppression and revolution. Let's stop moving in that direction and spare ourselves the heartache.
Not that anything anyone says on a forum or in private discussion is going to effect any such change.
Anyway, I'm out. I've said what I had to say. You can return to your wildly humous and ridiculously implausible situation-based comedy that proves the essential correctness abusive policy and runaway authoritarianism.
:banghead: 
