Cops finally losing credit in pro RKBA circles

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Cops finally losing credit in pro RKBA circles

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While people on the political left have historically been far more antagonistic to police and folks on the right have been predominately very supportive, the image and respectability of law enforcement among those on the right is starting to take on water. This is ultimately bad for not only police (who won’t have many friends left in the community if they lose right-leaning gun owners), but for the gun rights movement at large.

In this article, I’m going to give some recent examples of things that hurt the relationship between police and the gun rights movement, and offer some ideas on how to improve this.
Been a long time coming, thankfully a number of idols were slain in 2020, opening people's eyes to the "this can't happen in #Merica" fallacy.
Maybe gun owners have been too kind to police, and have “backed the blue” until we’ve become enablers instead of friends. While most of us certainly don’t want to get rid of policing, it’s clear that changes need to be made. Gun owners should be among those calling for rational reforms.
And this is the funny part...the 2nd Amendment says "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State"...there's your answer, ma'am. Don't be lukewarm about it...police are not now, nor ever have been, the constitutional answer to the problem you're finally waking up to viewing. We The People are to be the "street level" executive branch, regulated well in order to keep corruption and evil at bay.
Article I, Section 8 (the Militia Clause) states:

“Congress shall have the power to: provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress.”
This is what gun owners SHOULD be calling for(th). The People have been miseducated and complacent for a minute, though, and even the author of the article doesn't see the solution clearly.
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