But isn't that the argument the left uses against gun owners -- that they have guns, and are therefore anxious to see how they work?
If you really believe that police who have guns are driven to use them simply because they have them, doesn't that suggest that the left has a point when they make the same argument about citizens?
I am comfortable arguing that an average citizen gun-owner is as trustworthy with their weapon as a trained officer. I'm not sure I'd argue that civilian gun-owners are MORE trustworthy, on average, than police.
I only refer to what happens in their SWAT raids when they shoot people and their dogs.
Civilians and gun owners do not go out in the early morning hours dress up like Wannabee military and beat people’s doors down and shoot their dogs.Obviously they come in charged up and ready to kill.
I don’t know any hunters or civilians that do that, and use the law for cover.I refer to WACO , and Ruby Ridge, and other raids. Once they even shot up the Mayors House in Mt. Ranier, Maryland. A police sniper in Southern Maryland shot and killed a Marine suffering from PTSD.The list is long.
Perhaps some of these police are the bottom of the barrel, but give them the cover of the law and some would as shoot you as not.Not all, but some. That;s my opinion, and I know a lot of people do not agree.