But...but...but:
They must be exempt from common laws as they are from common privileges. Theirs is a high and lonely destiny. (H/t C.S. Lewis)
Or, to put it another way:
“You’re not serious, are you? Law enforcement has historically and traditionally in America been granted statutory exemption from many laws during the prosecution of their duties, in order to enable them to more successfully apprehend criminals. The same with firefighters and ambulances. Would you want to be bleeding out from a wound and have the ambulance you are in stopped and waiting for the light to change at the next intersection because some dumb idiot in the legislature believed everyone without exception should be at all times subject to the traffic codes in the interests of the false god of “equality”?”
Won’t someone think about how hard a government employee child molester has it?
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” Would you want to be bleeding out from a wound and have the ambulance you are in stopped and waiting for the light to change at the next intersection”
Pequannock NJ cops had a habit of pulling over ambulances, they did that to one that was transporting a heart attack patient.
Ambulance crews tried to avoid driving through certain intersections there due to that stupidity.
Whether they stopped being idiotic like that in the intervening years, I don’t know.
Nor do I want to be the ambulance cargo finding out.