Who is telling you this though? It isn't me. It isn't my coworkers. It is the misinformed, left leaning lunatics who believe that guns are the problem. Some folks act as if the push for gun control starts with the police in this country and that is not the case. I posted a link a few weeks ago to a story where Obama asked LE to support him in his quest to disarm America and all of the comments (posted by LE officers) were basically telling him to get bent.
There are differences between a police officer using force and a citizens using force. They are relatively minor scope but they are there. I am a police officer. I support the right of the citizens of this country to own and carry firearms. I've been recommending carry to the citizens I serve long before it was cool or INGO existed. I'm tired of being made out to be the enemy.
Its not you ...i find your post well written and enjoy your view......the real problem is a lot of law abiding citizen do not trust or fear the police and the goverment and see the police as a tool as the goverment....and you take it personal at times....hell i get the same thing with my military/gov. back ground .... i hear this all the time (we just want to put people in fema camps and will patrol the streets and fire on innocent citizen)...again they see us as a tool of the goverment...and times i take it personal.....when its not its just there fear or view of a overreaching goverment.......
i have strong view on police forces not being militarized which they are more and more ...hell a lot more military are not trusting police forces because of this am sure the citizen are to seeing police looking like soldiers. again adds to the fear as the goverment using them as a tool against its people (police state) .....same old song .... just like if extreme gun conrol is passed the police will be the tool to enforce it .....if we keep heading down the road we are as a nation the mistrust and fear to the goverment will increase and to the police and military for we are the goverment enforcement tools in most citizen eyes..just my ....