The response will eventually become to ambush any officer who shows up unexpectedly for any reason.
Too many laws results in too many confrontational encounters with law enforcement.
If citizens really are as violent as the police seem to think, why aren’t more police getting gunned down in our streets? Why do I keep reading reports of nonviolent, unarmed citizens getting killed or maimed by police? Shouldn’t the latter be very, very rare?
I respect the police. Read my other posts on the police, and you’ll find I normally give them the benefit of the doubt. However, something is seriously going wrong in many police forces today. I don’t want police killed or injured of course, but they have to accept a slightly higher risk than normal citizens.
It’s crazy to have them blasting away the instant they feel threatened, especially when a normal citizen wouldn’t have felt threatened in similar circumstances. Take that case where the elderly gentleman was reaching for his cane. A cane! Why in the world would anyone assume the guy was getting out of his truck and grabbing a rifle in response to being pulled over? That’s irrational fear—not something you or I would think if we saw the guy doing the same thing. AND, what was the probability of that guy actually getting an aimed shot off and hitting the officer even if it was a rifle??? Anyone who handles guns would know the risk was very, very low, especially when the cop already had his weapon out and aimed.
The result of too many laws is that all respect is lost for laws, and laws thus become meaningless.
My exact thoughts as well...............