>>> Police Officers wear a uniform to provide a _visible_ presence, that very
>>> presence being a deterrant to the criminally minded in society. Those 4
>>> were in some other category and should not have been doing flatfoot work.
It hadn't been obvious from the press that they weren't uniformed cops.
>>Bottom line: police are here to protect the citizenry from criminals, not to
...
>Wrong. The police are here to enforce laws and arrest people.
>They have no legal obligation to protect.
Of course, the police enforce laws against gun possession by citizens,
without giving them the protection the guns would have.
Last week there was a headline in one of the San Francisco papers saying
"Gun, 51, Saves Man, 83"
An old guy who'd had a gun under the bed for 50 years killed a burglar.
He'd only fired the gun a few times, a few decades ago,
and hadn't even gotten it out to oil it for a couple of years.
The normally rabidly anti-gun paper approved of the guy.
A few years back, at an anti-gun-control rally in Trenton NJ,
the woman who got the front-page picture on the local newsrag was
a black grandmother from Elizabeth NJ. She said she had her gun because
"You think the police are going to come to *my* neighborhood after dark?"
Thanks!
Bill
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