Several police and sheriff's organizations lobbied hard against the open carry bill.
The universities lobbied against the campus carry provisions.
Our employees are telling us what we will have.
No!
You are our employees, you work FOR us, NOT AGAINST us.
We want open carry, you accommodate us, we don't accommodate you.
We want campus carry, you adapt, we don't.
How about we just cut funding for you? You job gets a lot harder with less money, doesn't it? You seem to have too much since you can afford to spend it lobbying against my wishes. Let's just figure out what you spent fighting this bill and we clip your budget by that amount.
Deal?
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This is a very good point. My own take on police lobbying against CCW, or against the repeal or relaxation of marijuana prohibition, is like this: "If you want to live in a place where the work of the police is easy, you can. I hear North Korea's lovely this time of year."
ReplyDeleteOne trend I think is distinctly unhealthy is the tendency of the cops and other LEOs to see the world as divided into "cops" and "citizens," and "citizens" as an euphemism for "perps we haven't collared yet." I am not happy at all that cops get privileges that I don't; the only difference between me and a cop is that a cop's allowed to arrest people for misdemeanors.
This is one reason why I like my idea that everybody able-bodied and without a serious criminal record should have to take a turn as a beat cop, and that professional police should be limited to specialists like CSI teams. Get rid of the "blue wall" and also have the cops knowing that the civilians know what they go through. "Oh, the agony...the horror...the stale donuts..."