Village Bans Police Gun Carry

[Roadkill Coyote]

Keith

OK, you didn't say it works well, only that it was preferred...

"that's a big reason they prefer to handle most matters themselves."

which still leaves the nagging question, if they prefer to handle it themselves, and see the police as interfering in

"something that's already being dealt with internally",

then where are these calls and reports coming from? Bears? In a village without power or running water, I doubt that they get too many anonymous 911 calls. Although dealing with an alcohol related problem is

"not fair to the cop or the alcoholic",

it is fair to the person that called the police. Sometimes, that's the best you can do.

 

[spacemanspiff]

yes, the bears are organizing an underground militia. somehow they have a copy of the constitution with a significant typo that has led them to believe that they are supposed to be armed.
so they call the police and are dismayed when they discover the responding officers are unarmed and there is no firearm for the bears to steal from them while the officers showboat and spin their weapons on their trigger finger just like they do in the movies.

 

[JohnKSa]

Keith,

I understand pretty well--maybe better than most.

I spent around 10 years of my life alternating between a village (30 people, mud huts and canoes) in the Amazon rain forest and a small (300 people) town in Colombia. The town had a diesel generator that provided electricity when we could afford to run it and there was running water a good bit of the time. In the forest there was nothing.

Just because you don't have electricity and sewers doesn't mean you have to be backward in EVERY way.

 

[Tommy Gunn]

The police should have firearms. But I also think that the police baton would be a more appropiate weapon for much of their needs.