Quote Originally Posted by Aristotle View Post

This is why we need to disarm the police. They don't need guns the vast majority of the time. When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Guns are pulled and used far too often, when they should rarely ever be part of a situation.
There are a few prerequisites to making this happen.

1. If you disarm the police, you will have to disarm the people - Be it wholesale or select portions.
2. If you disarm the people, you will need to guarantee the criminal elements no longer carry firearms.
3. If you disarm the police without meeting prerequisites 1 and 2, you will need to ensure the police are comfortable in their position where each routine traffic stop could potentially end in a one sided armed conflict.

It's very simple to make the statement the police should be disarmed, but this is an extremely complicated overhaul. There are no easy steps to making *any* of the above prerequisites occur. If the above prerequisites are not put into play before that happens, you will not have an effective police force due to the imminent police strikes, resignations, and disastrous deaths which are certain to follow.

This is not the UK where it is an absurd rarity to own a firearm, and the police do not have to worry quite so much over simple incidents.

Disarming the police is a partial solution to a larger problem.

In reality, the correct solution(s) to the current cop violence epidemic would be as follows:
1. Ensure threat to life to the police is minimized (Gun Control) OR Reform the criminal element before it becomes a criminal element (Improve Moral Compass of Society as a Whole).
2. Improve the conditions of the criminal element - If someone is able and willing to work, they should work. If someone is able and willing to seek advanced education, they should do so.
3. Hold the Police Accountable. (Body Cameras, Stricter Penalties for Manslaughter)
4. Once items 1-3 are addressed and a Utopia is met, then and only then you can successfully disarm the police without incident.

Otherwise...yea, this is never going to happen. At least not with any level of success or permanence.