"It seems that some people have no idea what gun-toting drug dealers are like."
Very true and it was the government drug war that made them into what they are. Much like prohibition led to the rise of violent booze gangs.
Yours is the stupidest argument known to man. These vicious, drug dealing scumbags are not vicious scumbags because the public (not the "government") has chosen to make certain drugs illegal. Rather they are vicious scumbags because they themselves have chosen to be such. And why? For the money. If all drugs were legal, would these same individuals simply choose to have no money? Of course not. They want money just like you want money and I want money. They would simply find some other way to apply their inate selfishness and thuggishness to the task of getting themselves the cash they seek. They are scum and it's no one's fault but their own. Wise up, dude!
Uhhhhh kinda like gun toting thugs in black body armor??????Just as drug companies have perverted the idea of medicine as a healing art so too have the cop toys/equipment companies have twisted the art of policing into something done through the barrel of a gun.
Respect for law grows from selfrespecting enforcers of the law not revenue collectors/animal control officers who have no contact or context in the community they "police".