But whenever it comes up I often get dragged by cop-fans. Not the kinda dragging the rioters do. Polite comment disagreement.
Solution, for me, all this time has been to hamstring the public sector unions. They wield too much power. But that solution is, like most, too simple, direct, plausible - and wrong. Well, wrong-ish. Good ol' Mencken. Can always count on the sage of Baltimore until he got too old and bitter in the 30s.
Anyway. Yes, the union and big blue wall is a bad thing, and qualified immunity they back to the hilt is easily abused too. But take them things away you get new problems. If you kill off the public union then public/politic management has to have the cops' backs. SOMEBODY has to back stop them, or they'll get eaten alive. And I'd not trust a politician to do that. The only thing worse than a crooked cop is any politician that thinks you stand in his way at the ballot box. And they'll throw bad cops and good cops and victimized constituency over the transom in a trice if they threaten the pols phoney-baloney job.
So, my distaste for abusive cops is tempered by my greater distaste for the political class above them. What's that... a dirty cop is still acting like a good guy 80% of the time? Maybe. I dunno. But a good pol is only good, what? 50%? Servants indeed.
To be confident and competent enough with a rifle to be able to hit anything I can see in a Jovian Thunderbolt kind of way.
To be able to defend myself with a handgun.
To perhaps harvest some tasty venison with either a rifle or a shotgun, any skin or antler is just a nice bonus, here.
And, if necessary: To Defend the Ramparts of Democracy from a Level 4 Zombie Outbreak or against the Jacobin, Rampaging, Godless, Red-Commie Hordes (or their modern equivalent.)
"You never select a shotgun as your primary anti-zombie firearm. It's great for onesy twosey, but zombies travel in hordes. The reload time is onerous, and the ammo, while effective, is heavy and bulky and short ranged."
Big Mistake for Her
If Ginsberg had let Scalia put the words "strict scrutiny" in Heller and Hillary said "Gun control is just not going to be a priority for my administration," Hillary would have been elected President.
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