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> the police in the US have the same right to keep and bear arms as anyone else And we have the right to make them not be police anymore. Disclosure: I am a s
by 15155 8y ago
> the police in the US have the same right to keep and bear arms as anyone else
And we have the right to make them not be police anymore.
Disclosure: I am a staunch Second Amendment supporter, well into the "extreme."
The Second Amendment does not override the employer-employee relationship - firearm possessors are not in a "protected class."
You're free to have that firearm and you may not be arrested for it - even while at your place of employ. We need not maintain your employment, however.
- krapp 8y agoFair enough, but that leads to an unarmed police force facing an armed populace, which either leads to armed citizen militias filling the power vacuum needed to maintain civil order against that armed populace, or a collapse in civil order, because people aren't going to stop shooting at the police. Which is why I argue that it's an intractable problem barring repealing the Second Amendment. Even if there are legal ways to accomplish merely disarming the police, it doesn't solve anything unless you disarm everyone.
- 15155 8y agoI didn't say this was a good or reasonable idea, just that it was legally workable.