Until the police are willing to give up their guns, why should the people give up their guns? Personally, I would consider mutual disarmament, but certainly not

Until the police are willing to give up their guns, why should the people give up their guns? Personally, I would consider mutual disarmament, but certainly not a one-sided one that gives even more power to the already too-powerful, incredibly corrupt, and incredibly violent police. The right to have a gun is a much more powerful force than the actual act of having a gun, assuming that people do actually take advantage of that right, which they do. It makes the police and military think twice about breaking into people homes and taking them over, committing violence against them, or killing them. Mind you, just because they think twice about it doesn't mean they'll make the sane decision and not knock down doors in the middle of the night serving warrants to the wrong house (in which situation the police are asking to be shot at so I can't really feel bad for them and their insane decisions). Yes, the police and military have much bigger and better guns so the situation is not quite balanced, but it is as balanced as it's going to get. Without the right to bear arms, it's almost impossible to enforce one's natural rights, spelled out in the constitution. The police, who don't want you enforcing those rights, are certainly not going to help you. It is the right itself and the exercising of the right to bear arms itself that keeps most of the violence away without even a single shot being fired. So no, pepper spray will not help.