It is sort of like hearing a guy yell, "Allah Ackbar!" You tend to immediately jump to the conclusion that he is up to no good.
If you read the news you can find on a daily basis the police acting out in a way that is questionable to say the least and usually criminal. And you always find the "thin blue line" there to try to say that the police were doing nothing wrong when they crossed county lines to do a no knock raid on the house of the mayor of a neighboring town and proceed to shoot his dogs that were running away from them.
On the other hand as a general rule neighborhood watch guys tend to be pretty levelheaded as do CCW permit holders.
So one group has a record of behaving in a criminal manner and one has a record of being the good guys.
Are there good cops? Sure
Are there bad CCW holders? Sure
But in general it tends to be the other way around.
You can read all sorts of nonsense on teh intarwebz. Doesn’t make it true.
But, look. I get it that the Libertarian mind thinks that the local cops act in a way that is usually criminal. To a lot of us SoCons, that sounds, simply crazy. A cop, like any human, can commit a crime, but to say that our local city and county cops are “usually criminal” is so utterly divorced from our own experience that we can’t even figure out where you’re coming from.
And if taken seriously, this notion calls into question our ability to continue to govern ourselves as a constitutional republic. If the people of east nowhere, New Mexico can’t even control their own elected sheriff, is there any function of government that they can competently execute?
And if not, what is the alternative? Roaming bands of self-appointed Libertarian CCW holders accountable to, well, whom? Certainly not the voters, as we’ve established that they can’t be trusted. It’s a puzzler, all right.