“Not any more. I think that’s why the Founding Fathers included “well armed militia” in the founding documents (inspired by God). In the end, police are human and therefore corruptible. Ultimate responsibility for safety and justice is with the citizen.
Police USED TO BE rightfully venerated.”
Very well said. We are now at the point we cannot even defend ourselves in a situation of immediate threat. If we do the law enforcement we have now will lock us up and confiscate everything they can. All your guns, computers, cash... Even if is a blatantly obvious undeniable situation of self defense. Then it costs everything you own to be found not guilty. These situations are when police are now worse to have around than better.
An honest officer who respected the Constitution at his own legal discretion would nip it in the bud and deem it as justified self defense and fill out the report and leave without any further hardship or actions against the person who had every right to do what they did. Done, open and shut as a Constitutional right per the officer’s discretion.
Once my boss in SoCal commented — in a negative way — on the NRA sticker on my car. “So you’re one of those pistol-packin’ mamas.” The “tsk tsk tsk” was implied.
I replied, “No; I’m not. But we support the Second Amendment and donate to those causes because it’s important.”
Maybe I need to consider actually becoming a “pistol-packin’ mama” one of these days.