the hero is the gun...

[cigarsarge]

Chuck...You and I are never gonna agree but that is OK. I see things in a way that you obviously cannot understand. My job is to protect society. I am trained to factor things into my decision making that a civilian is not aware are possibilities. What you see on the surface is not always what is reality.

I will say drug dealers are a violent type of people. In most every drug raid I have ever done weapons were found in close proximity to the dealers if not on them. People that abuse drugs are prone to violence due to mental decay. Give em a gun and they are dangerous. Just ask the two dead guys.

I do feel empathy for these drug usere. I wish there were more ways to get them turned around. That's my wife's department as she is a nurse at the jail where I take these folks.
She has got a good dose of reality and is starting to realize what people that abuse drugs are capabile of.

[SuperChuck]

You and I are never gonna agree but that is OK.

That I agree with.

I was thinking the same thing and I'm VERY glad you're able to respectfully disagree with someone. That's surprisingly hard to come by. I totally respect you as a person and for the work you do, so I'm glad that I'm able to throw a little criticism your way without catching (too much) hell.

I was a little worried because, unfortunately, a lot of the cops I've bumped into online play the "I put my life on the line for people like you every day while you sit on your ass, so how dare you criticize blah blah blah" card really quickly... Then another cop on the forum will pipe up and before you know it everyone's taking sides (usually the cop's side, cuz that's very popular these days) and soon I find it's me against the whole board just because I think Miranda Rights was a good ruling.

I will say drug dealers are a violent type of people. In most every drug raid I have ever done weapons were found in close proximity to the dealers if not on them.

Some drug dealers are violent, but I think most are mostly paranoid. They have two commodities that are hot on the street: cash and drugs. There are a lot of people that are more than happy to take either or both. Add the police into that mix and they're COMPLETELY paranoid. I think most keep guns around as a form of protection. That's certainly not to say all drug dealers are non-violents, but the dealers that I've met are interested in protecting themselves and their assets.