The overwhelming criminal use of firearms is in connection with narcotrafficking, which is essentially a kind of military combat situation, and with gang use, in taking and defending turf and retaliating against offenses, which is also a kind of military combat situation. Most anti-gun legislation is really inspired by that kind of activity, but no one has figured out a way to write legislation that excludes persons not engaged in such activities, whose only involvement is likely to be to be caught in the crossfire. We, of course, fit into that category of innocents whose role is that of law enforcers rather than offenders, but the law enforcement establishment has trouble seeing armed civilians as colleagues rather than as suspects or adversaries, having become limited to the paradigm of law enforcement being done by professionals who carry the insignia of official positions.
-- Jon
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