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Originally Posted by Kale_M
Why do you need a weapon? Are you arresting people? Are you in fear for your life cause of a sketchy hobby you have? If you need to protect yourself with a gun on a daily basis you should probably leave the country. Go live in Somalia, seems to be more your style
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The point is that no persons life is more important than any other law abiding person. How come we don't see a poll calling for sidearms for wives after a horrible news incident of a woman being killed by her abusive husband? The lives of many murder victims are no less important than any LEO, Peace Officer, teacher or Starbucks barista for that matter (I'll exclude the criminal lifestyle murders from the comparison, as they
are less important). No polls are being started to arm cab drivers or bank tellers, both of whom are frequently robbed. Nobody's calling for CCW for prostitutes, who arguably get murdered more than any other identifiable group. The double standard is what we're getting at; don't go getting all huffy that you protecting yourself at work is any more important than the rest of humanity protecting themselves in their day to day lives. Every citizen is the police and the police are all citizens; police are empowered by the public, not self-empowered (those are the last kind we want as LEO's).
Save for criminal scum-bags; everyone deserves to get home safe, and be safe while there. The more good people that are armed, the less bad people succeed in their criminal endeavors.