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Originally Posted by Marvelous Marv
I have drawn a gun in self defense, but I will refrain from calling your argument stupid; instead, I will call it what it is: Dangerously naive.
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In what way?
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Originally Posted by cj2112
The courts have struck down the argument that it is the polices responsibility to protect the individual citizen, therefore the responsibility falls to me to protect myself and my family. I also have used a firearm in self defense.
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I never said "protect the individual citizen", I said protect and serve, as in to protect and serve society. The responsibility to protect the 'individual citizen' is irrelevent, to responsilibity to protect the whole populace of the US falls to the whole executive branch when it enforces laws that the judicial branch interprets and the legislative branch creates.
The bottom line is that a police officer walking the beat is put into dangerous situations more often than the average citizen, AND, by vocation, seeks to aprehend criminals. The police officer seeks out criminals, so he is around danger more. Unless a citizen seek out criminals (vigilantism is illegal, btw), he or she is not in as much danger as a police officer.