The first punch against such cowardice failed. The second punch is civil action. Which will turn up to be a tax item on that municipality’s budget, so it will be a symbolic victory.
Look, we are not supposed to be serving kings and queens. We are supposed to be governing by and for “the people.” However when “the people” are themselves overcome by cowardice, then the whole country will look cowardly.
In those police we see ourselves, in a mirror, better than we would care to admit. And as long as we pull the scepter of society away from God, that will keep on happening. It will be visibly unjust and it will just keep on a-comin’. The answer is waiting for us at the Throne of Grace but it expects us to come asking for it. We must ask God to clear out our sin and replace it with new righteousness.
“Part” of the answer is still likely a militia. Here is where 2nd Amendment aficionados, who by and large are God fearing yet, could really come out smelling like roses. Calculate the gun-to-atrocity ratio for the militia and the police, and the militia will just look super, and the police like chumps.
I've always been impressed with Rubachov's theory about the relative sophistication of society in Arthur's Koestler's . As technology moves forward, the cultural sophistication of a society, and it's appreciation for the rights of an individual, not only lags behind, it regresses. It took over a thousand years before society caught up with the technology of Roman times and could conceive something like our constitution. Once technology advanced with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, society started a march backward. Today, with our even more sophisticated technology and it's more rapid advances, we are approaching the the level of an ant colony.