Please see the first post in a series of ten posts that I am writing entitled “Confessions of an Ex-Liberal Gun Owner” in the General/Chat blog.
Ten weeks! The timeline is too long how about one a day?
Obligatory Whining about blog pimping to follow soon...
>>I would never suggest that our society should not have police to enforce the rule of law.<<
Why not? In much of the Western USA the police agencies are mostly around to write reports and serve warrants...much the same as their professional ancestors (the ‘Shire Reeves’) of England. It falls to the citizens to protect themselves and it often falls to the citizens to enforce the law.
Point of fact: Many Midwest and Western counties use non-professional volunteer and part-time citizen deputies for law enforcement. Up until the advent of the professional police about 175 years ago the world did just fine without them.
Given that today you are more likely to be WRONGFULLY killed by a police officer than by a law abiding citizen then there’s an argument that our streets would be safer without squads of machine-gun toting, tank driving, grenade throwing, puppy killing, black-clad gangsters roving them and invading people’s homes without warrants.
Posse Comitatus was supposed to keep the military off of our streets and anymore the police ARE a military and what’s worse is where they investigate their own abuses they are truly unaccountable to anyone for their crimes.
Get rid of the police departments but keep the elected sheriffs who are at least held accountable to the people when they stand to election and re-election.
Was never much for comic books but seeing the crime waves and riots of the 1960s changed my mind about gun ownership.