We have a problem with too many guns. To think we should have our cops on the streets with no weapons is not realistic.
We have a lot of anti government/anti cop, heavily armed militia, sovereign citizens, boogaloo boys and on and on we can go. These groups are not in one localized area of the country, they are in every town, village, small city, big city and in rural areas. This is what our little town had to put up with a few years ago:
https://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/crime/feds-arrest-bozeman-anti-government-activist-on-gun-charge/article_8b6cc087-1d9d-5684-8fb0-82a4b1a62b26.html
According to Deurmeiers affadavit, Wolf had begun producing a weekly webcast titled, The Montana Republic, in November 2013. The intent of the webcast, in Deurmeiers words, was to bring like-minded patriots together to counter local, state and federal governmental actions that were viewed as overstepping on constitutional rights.
In June 2014, while discussing the federal governments involvement in local government, the FBI says that Wolf compared shooting law enforcement officers to gopher hunting.
In a July 2014 conversation with a confidential informant, the FBI says, Wolf also described his intention to develop a blowtorch gun able to target officers wearing body armor.
The following September, after the Bozeman Police Department had acquired a Lenco BearCat armored vehicle, the FBI says that Wolf stated the need to destroy the vehicle in a conversation with a confidential informant and suggested the most effective method would be cooking it from the inside before reiterating his plan to build the blowtorch gun.
We also have had several law enforcement officers killed in the past 10 years. All of them from crazy, anti government, white dudes with guns.
We need to stop the killer cops and cop killers and keep the good cops geared for what they may face.