[Salvavida]

Hyperbole. All means all. So this statement is false; there are many police officers that would not confiscate guns under any order.

We don't need to make enemies out of police officers. We need to engage them with dialog to educate them, while toning down the rhetoric. That is how we win.

The biggest lesson this taught us is to be vigilant, and to voice outrage. On to the next battle. If we can win in liberal Connecticut, we can win anywhere. Except California, New York, and Massachusetts.

[Orangedog]

Hyperbole

Yeah, right. Where are the throngs of "good" cops on this police force calling for his resignation? Where are the "good" cops on this police force who have gone to arrest their brother for statements that would have gotten one of us commoners arrested tout de suite for saying the same thing to one of them? How about all of the "good" cops across the fruited plains calling for the resignation or termination for cause of this man who says he wants to murder gun owners while he's on duty? There are none. By their words and deeds, we shall know them.

[Cboldt]

-- We don't need to make enemies out of police officers. We need to engage them with dialog to educate them, while toning down the rhetoric. --

Cops, as a group, are not trustworthy, nor is the "justice" system that gives them a nearly unrebuttable presumption in their favor. That system is very much an "us vs. them" affair, with the general public being lower on the totem pole. I'm talking about the attitude of cops, prosecutors and judges.

I do agree about toning down the rhetoric.

I think your sentiment about being able to "educate" them is Pollyanna. I also doubt that as much as 15% of the police force would refuse an order to confiscate guns. They are "law and order" types, and if the law says the guns are forbidden to the general public, then the function of the police is merely enforcement - they aren't responsible for writing the "bad" law, and let the courts sort out the legalities afterwards.

[andyk]

We don't need to make enemies out of police officers.

They're obviously perfectly capable of doing it all on their own.

[Balding_Eagle]

We don't need to make enemies out of police officers.

You are correct.

The police have chosen to make us the enemy. It's no longer up to us.

[Daffynition]

Dear, dear Salvavida

The times has passed for making *nice* with ANYone who would strip me and mine from my God-given rights to defend myself....more than a few of us, in Connecticut have stake in what happens here.

Thanks for your opinion, misguided as it is. :)

[tomkat]

If the 'good' ones don't get a pronto handle on the lunatics/cowards/thugs in their midst, it will likely not end well for many of them, regardless.