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Originally Posted by Platapus
The police are there to enforce the law after the crime has been committed. The police are not there to protect people or to prevent crimes from being committed.
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What about "to serve and protect" - or is this only valid in LA?
Policework is also pre-emptive, they don't have to wait till a crime is committed to take action.
Actually I'm only nitpicking, since I agree with your last sentence:
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Originally Posted by Platapus
As soon as the police can guarantee that they will be there to prevent crimes from being committed, then I will start to believe that responsible citizens no longer need to keep weapons for self defense.
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Though the discussion went on a tangent, from the issue about open carry, over concealed carry, over the right to own guns and now we arrived at weapon ownership on principle.