I would like a question answered: In a free society what is the proper role of a police force? Should there even be one? Your arguments appear to advocate anarchy.
In a free state, the ultimate security and continued freedom of that state is up to the
free citizens, who are granted the right to keep and bear arms under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution for that express purpose.
No, it is not up to the Executive branch to protect us individually — the job of the Executive branch is to protect the NATION against all enemies foreign and domestic. However, the Second Amendment clearly calls upon citizen Militias to ensure the security of a Free State.
This entails the armed citizenry
protecting itself not only from local crime, but also from an increasingly corrupt and oppressive central government when necessary, just as the Founders intended.
No, a well-regulated Militia is NOT another arm of the Executive branch of government. No, police forces and the National Guard DO NOT constitute citizen's Militias under the Constitution. A citizen's Militia must, of necessity, NOT be regulated by the central government.
A citizen's Militia is well-regulated by the CITIZENRY, not the government.
I, for one, do not believe that turning over our individual protection to the government is wise or healthy for our continued freedom. If the MILLIONS of police officers in this nation serve any purpose, it is as a RESPONSE force serving the citizenry.
However, when a corrupt or oppressive central government is calling the shots, WHO do you think the police, or the FBI, or the BATF, or the National Guard will serve? The government? Or the citizenry?
We already have ample evidence to answer THAT question.
Only seldom do the police and other law enforcement agencies actually PROTECT the citizenry. More crimes are prevented by
armed citizens than by police forces, and any LEO can confirm that.
How would you respond to three private citizens holding you at gunpoint on your own property whose only intent is to prevent your being robbed or murdered? I hope you can see how this scenario could get several innocent people with good intentions killed.
I hasten to point out that the same scenario ALREADY gets many innocent people killed with police asking the questions, as well. There are many cases in which police mistakenly enter homes by force and kill innocent civilians.
Frankly, I would feel safer if my neighbors WERE monitoring my property and DID call
me rather than the police. In fact, my neighbors HAVE called to alert me to prowlers, and I have done the same for them. That's the way things SHOULD BE in this country, rather than citizens cowering in their homes, awaiting an official
response force that may not arrive for 45 minutes or more.
I'm not asking my neighbors to stand down. Neither will I stand down. I do prefer that those with "bad intentions" KNOW that I am more than adequately armed and able to defend my home, family and property.
Trust me, the "bad guys" in this town know I am armed and that I have no qualms about publicly exhibiting my firearms. Most of the citizens in this town are similarly armed and similarly defiant in the face of fear and suspicion.
As a result, the crime rate here is exceptionally low compared to the rest of the country. An openly armed society is, indeed, a POLITE society.