Reply #17: "Supposed to have one"?

[Euromutt]

No way. The way I see it, if private citizens don't get to have the means to defend themselves, no private entity does, and no government official who doesn't need it as part of his job (i.e. law enforcement and military). That means no rent-a-cops, no private bodyguards, no private detectives and skip-tracers, no judges and public prosecutors, no mayors, governors, legislators, and for good measure, no police chiefs and sheriffs if they're off-duty. They and their clients can call 911; if it's supposedly good enough for us plebs, it's good enough for them.

And Christ, I've lost count of how many times I've heard anti-RKBA types go "stuff isn't worth a human life!" Why does that apply to my stuff, but not to some bank's stuff?

And did it occur to you, sharesunited, that an armed rent-a-cop who lets himself get jumped by guys with baseball bats a) has just allowed his own weapon to fall into criminal hands, and b) if it were true that "if they had guns, he'd be dead" (that's first-degree murder, by the way) why wouldn't they shoot him with his own gun, which he just so obligingly provided them with?