“...I tend to get maudlin at times ...”
Don’t let it get to you. Get pissed. Stay pissed. Get loud, and wake other folks up.
Your influence extends far beyond what you might think.
LOL, is that why you wrote "No offense, but that’s a nice dream. It’ll never happen." when Real Cynic No More wrote: "I’d like to see an aggressive approach, such as a prohibition on law enforcement and protection officers, local, federal, and state, be prohibited from owning, carrying, or using any firearm, appurtenance, or ammunition that is prohibited for use by the law abiding general public, within the confines of the geographic United States.'?
Let me tell you something very plain - unless the police are allowed nothing other than the weapons that non-police are allowed to protect their lives, we will eventually lose, completely lose, 2nd Amendment rights.
Because without that equality, there is no moral or legal argument upholding the 2nd Amendment.
Cops use weapons to preserve their lives. If equal weaponry is not allowed against the same criminal threat (arguably worse against non-cops who don't have radio backup of massive firepower and are typically isolated when under attack), then what is being mandated by the law is that a police officer's life is worth more than the life of a citizen.
Understand? THE GUN ISSUE IS NOT ABOUT GUNS. The Left knows this! That's why they keep whacking away, again and again, try after try, because they know that the root of this gun-grab issue has not been stopped.
The issue is that the life of a police officer CANNOT be more valuable than the life of a citizen unde the law. That inequality is the root of totalitarianism. That single thing - alone - brings all the hell of the Soviet Union, Communist China, Nazi Germany, etc. THAT INEQUALITY IS THE FOCUS OF THE LEFT. They want it inscribed in stone, because they know that as long as it's not, they can be defeated.
So far, they feel pretty confident, though. Because almost no one is fighting them on the root issue - that's why they wave the scary guns around, so no one talks about the fact that it's not about the guns - it's about the EQUAL VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE - COP & NON-COP.