I don't think the guns make it untenable. If the police approached people in a professional, friendly manner (even with a gun around their waste), then most peo

I don't think the guns make it untenable. If the police approached people in a professional, friendly manner (even with a gun around their waste), then most people even if they own a gun, or even are carring one, would not think to use it. The problem comes when the police start a situation as a confrontation, their is no good way out of it. The bigger barrier to solving this issue isn't the guns, but the fact that the police have a big reputation that they would need to overcome.