Every police institution in this country should be pro 2A. Not only simply pro 2A but actively advocating for it all the time. Why? Because armed citizens are not targets for criminals. It's as simple as that. There is no complicated argument here.
All these chiefs and cops who come out in these big cities and talk about the dangers of gun ownership and promoting buy back programs from law abiding citizens should be fired and jailed for treason.
If I'm carrying in a town, city or state where everyone else or many, many people are carrying and have loaded firearms in the house, criminals aren't gonna fuck with me nor am I gonna fuck with some random over say road rage or nonsense squabbles. Everyone will understand the risk.
Even the most daring criminal will think twice.
Now, I know the argument that people immediately bring to the table; "cIty FunDed PolICe Can'T"...blah blah blah
Nonsense. Cities would rot without police as we have witnessed over the last two years especially.
So why aren't ALL unions and active members advocating for 2A all the time and putting pressure on mayors, councils, counties, governors etc?
Because the vast majority of them would be without jobs.
Crime would plummet and the vast majority of these guys would be unemployable outside of waving their badge around and making sure citizens aren't able to defend themselves by "doin muh job" (taking orders to disarm citizens in crime infested areas)
Police have so much power over rights in this country yet they cower all the time and allow tyrants to implement unconstitutional policies by complying with the order rather than stepping aside and refusing.
The above is why I have zero respect for policing as an institution. While citizens sacrifice to resist tyranny, they allow tyranny to dig deeper and use the excuse of "muh job".
Until we sort that situation out, the police state will continue to ram ahead. And don't get it twisted either. There will be no invasion of the US. IF that day comes, the enemy will be wearing a badge and lives down the street from you.
Power corrupts everything it touches.
When police (or doctors, scientists, teachers, or members of any other profession) are paid by tyrants, they will tend to support tyranny.
This is a general truth and a major reason why CIVIL society must be our goal -- a society where no one is allowed to initiate coercion against anyone else, and where punishment for doing so is swift, certain, and appropriate to the violation.
Power to initiate coercion cannot be reformed into something good, any more than rape can be reformed into something good. Rape is simply a particular instance of the crime of coercion; all other instances are crimes as well.
Anything less than civil society IS tyranny at some level, and once the kernel of Power is planted, that level will expand until there is no freedom left. We are almost there, despite the US government being "bound down by the chains of the Constitution."
The Market for Liberty is a good place to start for more detail on how and why a truly free market society (a CIVIL society) works and why ending the slavery of coercive government (i.e., throwing Tolkien's Ring of Power into Mordor) is the ONLY way to create a long-lasting, nearly incorruptible free society that serves the people rather than serving tyrants.