The perspective I look at it from is that how do you step it down? To step things down, both sides have to agree to step down.
So the government decides to take cops guns away and have them only have billy clubs and tasers. How long do you think they would last against folks with handguns and automatic rifles? Do you think that the criminals will say "Well, the cops don't have guns, guess we should give ours up to keep things fair."
Trust me, I look at the situation in the States, and I worry about where it'll go, where it'll end. I feel that we are watching an internal arms race, and I'm a bit scared of where it'll end up going, honestly.
But disarming the folks who are willing to voluntarily step between my family and the 'bad guys'...seems like a bad idea to me. Are those volunteers always the best of people? Nope, and they need to be held accountable when they fail. But taking away the tools to do their job? Quick way to run out of them, I'm thinking.
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