Bloomie can't understand why US police don't all go on strike

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6. Yes,

but the situations where that deterrence fails are legion. (I admit that they would be more frequent without law enforcement).

Every time a person is killed, robbed, raped kidnapped, battered, assaulted, tortured or immorally intimidated, the deterrence has failed. And if you are one of the people for whom deterrence fails—who gets cornered in a parking garage, for example—real protection is the only kind that can help you. You will either have to be lucky enough for a police officer to walk in at that moment or you will have to defend yourself, preferably with a gun. (Or, in the Bloomie model, you can depend on your natural fighting skills or the goodwill of felons).

Another thing Bloomie is missing is that when Giffords was shot, an armed citizen ran towards the gunfire too. The shooter had been stopped by the time he got there, and he didn't shoot or even draw his weapon,IIRC, but he did run to the gunfire. Citizens have run to gunfire and have stopped mass shootings.