Criminal 1 will just snatch your purse and run.
Criminal 2 will punch you first to make grabbing your purse and running easier.
Criminal 3 will just stab you first to make the purse snatching hassle free.
Now ask yourself
What keeps more criminal constrained?
A good guy/gal with a gun.
IF more people exercised the freedoms we do still have, far fewer of us would be giving them away willingly.
It's time to start shaming the retired oath holders for allowing this chaos to happen, imo.™
There are far more criminals than cops. I am just not willing to live in a world where I have to walk around among the criminals carrying a loaded gun. I am not going for living in a restrictive boundary of tribalism either, nor be under the supervision and be told what to do by a tribal leader just to survive anarchy.
Most cops are criminals.
Petty criminals, mostly, but still, violating rights is a crime.
Presuming enough men in the crowd, you won't have to worry about protecting yourself, there will be a man around to do it.
But, I still recommend a gun for you so you can protect yourself should one of those men go rogue.
If I don't have the authority to write my rules down and force them onto you, and you don't have the authority to write your rules down and force them onto others, and neither of us can delegate an authority we don't have, where do the cops get their authority?
Cops are satan.™
From the voters who fund them, at least that's how it's done here. Usually starts with a proposal to fund a police force, station, jail, etc., whatever the community feels they need, it grows from there as the population grows, salary funding usually isn't voted on, maybe there's some percentage figured based on a communities tax base. If it's needed money for a larger building, jail, etc., they usually go to the taxpayers through another proposal for a mileage request. If the voters turn them down, they have to look elsewhere for the funding.
Right, so cops are commies.
'All political power grows from the barrel of a gun.'
Chairman Mao
They take their 'authority' from people by forcing them to comply.
Taxpayers are slaves.
They have no choice but to comply, or be attacked by cops.
'We should thank these bullies for taxing us because if they didn't other bullies would.'
Anyway you look at it, you are damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
It's sad what 'they' are doing to the planet.
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