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Will You Do It?
American Cop Magazine ^ | 06/07/2012 | editor

Posted on 06/12/2012 4:50:56 PM PDT by aimhigh

I’ve known anti-gun cops, who seriously said things like, ‘They have no right to own a gun, it’s my job to protect them. If they have guns, it’s just a danger to me!’ . .

So, I’ll be blunt and ask you: Would you personally, go out and confiscate firearms from law abiding citizens — even if it goes against your personal opinion regarding the constitutional rights of citizens — and do it on the order of an administrative leader of your agency?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; donutwatch; oathkeepers; youwillnotdisarmus
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To: ansel12

We’ve been militarizing the police for decades which doesn’t help. I personally opposed shutting down our local police department because I wanted to keep them close as part of the local community.

Now we pay the county to roll through town once a week which is OK until there’s trouble and they shoot a local because they don’t know the local dynamics.

Keep in mind, I have a Hutaree militia member living less than a mile from me and we never had any problems when our cops were local.


21 posted on 06/12/2012 5:44:22 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: ansel12

I completely agree with you. The police have always had a tendency to support the guy in charge, whoever he may be.

The exception proves that rule: This guy is somewhat famous. I’m sure he wasn’t totally unique, but he’s the only German police official I know of who stood up to that Nazis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-Heinrich_Graf_von_Helldorf


22 posted on 06/12/2012 5:44:27 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Obama needs more time. After all -- Rome wasn't burned in a day.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

“If cops start coming around looking for guns, how many people would start going around looking for cops?
Quite a few, I think.”

Bingo, we have a winner.


23 posted on 06/12/2012 6:10:20 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: aimhigh

They did during Katrina.

A certain percentage always will abuse power.

Hence, the need for the new Indiana law.


24 posted on 06/12/2012 6:23:09 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: aimhigh

If fat ass city union cops are given the order to stop a riot, confiscate citizen armaments or go door-to-door and ask for a cup of sugar, they will hop in their squads, drive home and protect their families, just like they did in LA back in 1992. Hell, when a bunch of smelly hippies marched on the Sanford, Florida, police station a few months back, the cops wimpered like whipped dogs and shut the station down.

I prefer not to engage in fantasies about super-hero Rambo cops crushing 100 million armed Americans. They do not exist.


25 posted on 06/12/2012 6:24:49 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Public unions exist to protect the unions from the taxpaying public)
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To: sergeantdave

If it involved increasing revenue then YES they would.


26 posted on 06/12/2012 6:31:11 PM PDT by bicyclerepair ( REPLACE D-W-S ! http://www.karenforcongress.com)
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To: Chode

Yea, but they sound so confidence inspiring when they say that, don’t they?

/sarc


27 posted on 06/12/2012 6:47:12 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: bicyclerepair

“If it involved increasing revenue then YES they would.”

I have no idea what you’re talking about. Who is increasing revenue for what purpose, and yes they would for what? And who is “they?”

Try again, FRiend, and be more clear.


28 posted on 06/12/2012 6:51:40 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Public unions exist to protect the unions from the taxpaying public)
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To: rockrr
oh yeah, makes me feel safer... that and my .40
29 posted on 06/12/2012 7:05:41 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: sergeantdave
There is that...LOL!

In my area, we don't have very many “fat assed” cops out and about in public.

If the current “rank and file” ever decided to strike or go rogue, they would instantly face ten times their numbers of highly qualified military veterans, who our Sheriff could instantly tap to be volunteer deputies, leading an extensive militia of competent citizens as instant force multipliers.

There are many reasons I have always refused to live in a big city or a blue state...

30 posted on 06/12/2012 7:28:54 PM PDT by sarasmom ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xZsFe6dM3EY)
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To: aimhigh
Some will, some won't.

Survival will become an extremely personal, chaotic and dramatic experience for everyone involved.

31 posted on 06/12/2012 7:59:56 PM PDT by Envisioning (Call me a racist........, one more time..........)
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To: aimhigh

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32 posted on 06/12/2012 8:06:14 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Obama gives the order: seize the weapons of law-abiding Americans in your medium-sized town. Monday morning: 100 cops show up in the squad room for shift change.

The order is executed. Americans resist, 10 Americans die, three police officers die. Next week, 97 officers show up for shift change. The order is executed: 14 Americans die, five police officers die.

Two weeks in and 8 cops are dead, and others are looking around, thinking about getting out. Both sides are organizing, shooting starts earlier each day. After three weeks, the 80 remaining cops quit enforcing the order, unless Barack leads the raid.

The problem with seizing weapons is that you have to seize WEAPONS. Good luck with that, Kenyan.


33 posted on 06/12/2012 9:45:34 PM PDT by LifePath
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To: LifePath

Congratulations you have totally figured it out. Seizing weapons sounds great around the Whitehouse bar on Wednesday martini night but dying trying to enforce it is a whole nother endeavor.

My fiancee’ says if they start at the top of the block seizing weapons by the time they get to the end of the block there will be a full fledged firefight going on and its going to be real lopsided. We figure that within 48 hours the cops will be refusing to go out on patrol.


34 posted on 06/13/2012 6:23:10 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: aimhigh

BOOKbump


35 posted on 06/13/2012 7:44:27 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (That Kenyan, muzzy bastard is not my president. ENFORCE the Bill of Rights.)
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To: aimhigh

Sadly, some would.

Fewer are being taught Peelian principles, and as more LEOs are trained in ignorance of those principles, more of them would be willing to do it.

We need more Peace Officers.


36 posted on 06/14/2012 8:58:05 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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