You and I feel differently about it.
I can accept that, even if I disagree with your assertion that cops “are as much of a threat to us as any thief with a weapon”.
I would state unequivocally that the number of people not in the commission of a crime who are shot and killed by police is miniscule, nearly statistically non-existent.
Doesn’t say it doesn’t happen, for sure.
But I don’t think the risk from police is in any way equivalent to the risk posed by a criminal with a firearm who is either mugging you or breaking into your house.
That is where I disagree with you.
I never said that being killed by a cop was the only way cops can be threatening. There are many, many more.