Time to switch to belt fed weapons....
I normally support law enforcement and do not suffer from that rabid hate of them so often seen here. When my daughter calls 911, chances are those guys are showing up as fast as they can to help her. Car wreck, stalker, whatever.
But, something todays cops miss is that for most of America’s history the cops have carried much less firepower than the citizenry. This concept that the cops must always be able to carry overwhelming firepower when compared to us is a new thing.
And THAT mentality has changed how they deal with us. Before, they were usually bona fide representatives and protectors of the community. This is why they did not demand an overwhelming firepower, or expect a monopoly of firepower.
The current way of thinking is a subtle way of telling them they are a sort of occupation force, and that they never need to worry about pleasing the community.
So yes, the cops should have to revert to whatever magazines the civilians are forced to use.
Why do coops “need” more than 7 rounds? We have already heard for Rep Nadler that NO ONE “needs” more 2 or 4 round in self defense.
Since when doesn’t “law-abiding retired cops” = “private citizen”?
I don’t recall retired military being given special preferences concerning what they can or can’t carry, yet their oaths remain intact and in effect, too.
Cue the "sad trombone" soundtrack.
There is no requirement to show need to exercise your 2A rights.
Cops can have magazines. They just can’t take them out of the station house and in the station house they have to be kept 50 yards away from any gun it fits in.
Criminals need not take off their shoes now.
In 2009 of a population of approximately 700,000 LEO's in the US there were 38 felonious murders, or 0.0054%. In 2009 with a population of 307,006,550, there were 15,399 murders with a 0.0050% chance of being murdered (when you minus out the LEO numbers). That is a four ten-thousandths of a percent more chance to be murdered than the rest of the citizens in the U.S. When you figure every one of those LEO's were armed, trained and have available backup, the citizens are less protected and even more so now if the gun grabbers get their way.
“Gun reform must prevent criminals and the deranged from getting illegal weapons—not restrict law-abiding retired cops ...”
What about law abiding citizens? I guess we don’t count. Cops are more likely to be wife beaters, commit suicide, suffer from depression and PTSD than average citizens.
Another case proving unions are bands of useful idiots. If the ban of anything over 7 shots remains, then it should not have exceptions - it’s either a good idea or a bad one. Period.
I always believed the time for reasoned debate and thoughtful consideration was before passing legislation. Unbelievable. What country is this, again?
Yeah, I know, we have to pass it to find out what's in it. This makes me sick.
The cops don’t need them. There is absolutely no reason a cop needs any more armament than the average citizen. None at all.
Exemptions for LE in gun laws are Unconstitutional, immoral, and unjust.
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His second point negates the first.
News to all law enforcement:
You ARE regular citizens.
There is NO “law enforcement community.”
Only in a police state, are you as elevated as you now presume to be above the citizens and entitled to powers your now imagine.
It’s time to start a Traitors to the Constitution list.
Anyone who votes for a bill like this one is on it. Any gov’t official, like these cops here, who complains about the lack of a double standard, goes on it.
It’s time to start shunning these people.
I, on the other hand, am quite pleased. Cops should never be exempted from gun control laws.