Gun Control & RKBA

...that the cops, who we protest for shooting people, should not be trusted with better guns than everyone else.

Let me work that reasoning out to what its ultimate conclusion would be; which shows it is faulty.

1 - Police abuse you, violate your civil rights and have stepped over the legal line.

2 - Person decides to shoot at those abusive cops with an AR-15 and have lots more in their home.

3 - For this exercise, we will say the only guns the cops have are revolvers. No military tanks or even tear gas.

4 - So back up arrives. Are they going to first ask the original cops if the shooter has a legitimate reason for shooting at them, such as for civil rights violations? No, they aren’t going to do that.

5 - So now we have a person with all the semi-autos in the world in their home, but surrounded by cops with revolvers.

6 - This only ends one way. Eventually the suspect will get tired and hungry, surrounded with the power and water cut off. Prison or the morgue.

And that is the point. It does not matter if you have better guns than the cops, the same guns as the cops or worse guns than they have, if you shoot at them (even if they were in the wrong) it always ends the same. Prison or the morgue.

So my question would be, exactly how does gun ownership prevent police abuse? The answer is, it doesn’t. Police abuse will be addressed through legislation and law enforcement reform.

And yes, even if the person making the argument about gun ownership and cops is not saying it, the implication is that if you have the same guns as the cops, you can fight them off if they step over the line.

No you can’t. No one can. That one SWAT dude in the state of California years ago that killed a bunch of people still died in a fire in a cabin in the woods when they surrounded him. His sniper and SWAT experience didn’t save him against multitudes of cops after him.