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Police are NOT 2nd Amendment supporters. It is comical for any to claim as much.

Police enforce anti-2nd Amendment laws all day long. They prevent the purchase of a multitude of weapons and ammunition. They even prevent the carrying of Big Brother Approved weaponry, so that we mere mortals are forced to travel unprotected if we leave our homes.

Can I walk down the street with even a piddly .22 in my pocket? Only if I want to live in constant fear of a "concealed weapon" charge stemming from a "pat search incidental to arrest" because some asshole gestapo doesn't like what he thinks I'll do with some protest footage and wants to throw his weight around.

Wouldn't be the first time that's happened to me.

Don't even start about the fallacy of Concealed Carry Permits. Anyone who's researched the subject knows it's only County Sherrif's friends, family, and MAJOR CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS who ever get approval for these.

And what if I wore that piddly .22 openly in a hip holster, LIKE COPS DO WITH BIG OL .45'S? Just minding my own business.

Oh, the shit that would come my way.

I don't call that "support". I call that active opposition. I don't care what the reason - receiving a paycheck to do someone else's dirty work doesn't make it right, nor absolve one of responsibility for their own actions.

Spare me the crocodile tears. Your NRA membership card only proves that you're playing both sides to ease your guilty conscience.

Yes, we've heard it before. "I'm just doing my job". Yeah, well I'm just LIVING MY LIFE and EXERCISING MY RIGHTS. And your JOB is to RESPECT AND DEFEND THAT.

Once upon a time when America was still a free country, that meant something.

Yeah, the liberals legislators write the laws in California, liberal voters approve them, and liberal judges swing their toy hammers in approval.

But conservative cops choose to enforce them. Love that almighty paycheck, eh? As if it's somehow our fault they never acquired the skills to make a decent living otherwise, so they're entitled to this. Nice liberal logic there, from a bunch of conservatives.

It's a marriage made in hell, these conservative cops and liberal politicians, and civilians pay the price for every cop's cowardice and greed. Get an honest job like the rest of us, and earn your keep without infringing on people's rights.