Number one rule if you carry a gun for a living. Don't give up your gun to anyone or for anyone unless it is to a superior officer or LEO who is acting in the line of duty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cops do not give up their weapons because some tree hugging, anti gun moron thinks they should. Even in a court room where everyone is screened on the way in the bailiffs and cops who are there to testify are armed.
To ask them to do this is asking them to violate department policy and any and all common since, rational thought and logic. I can clearly see that you have never been involved in a job that included carrying a firearm.
I still don't get why anyone would think it is OK to ask a cop to give up their sidearms. To me that is one of the stupidest requests on the face of this earth. That is like asking a fireman to please not keep water in their firetrucks or paramedics to please not keep medical equipment in their ambulance. Dumb dumb dumb
If giving them the option to sacrifice their precious guns is so anathematic, they could just take the other option, thereby preserving allegiance to department policy. Your anger at the mere suggestion of them being treated like regular people is funny to me. Why, for instance invoke first the idea that they would be giving their gun “to” somebody?
How often do they use those things, anyway? They can’t take them off for lunch, really? They need them to testify in court? Why, otherwise they’ll be assassinated or someone will be taped right in front of them? When they go shift after shift, week upon month upon year without ever having to use it? Now, I realize there’s a deterrent effect, and even unused it is essential to project authority. But not at lunch. Other professions call for you to use tools every minute on the job; you don’t see firemen lugging hoses to lunch or construction workers carrying their power drills on their hips wherever they go.
This is not the Star Wars universe, and they are not Jedi Knights who must protect their lightsabers with their lives. Sounds to me more like a status thing. It’s part of their fancy pants uniform, and without it they’d be one of us mere mortals.