In this age of drone strikes, a few beer-bellied Bubbas with AR-15s aren't going to make any difference. The drones wouldn't even need to kill anyone, just knock out their food and fuel dumps and they'd have to give up. They're all so paranoid anyway that they couldn't take direction from anyone and would start quarrelling almost immediately, so you wouldn't have much of a fighting force.
How many shootings have there been? And you still have your precious bang-bangs. You could kill each other until there's only a few thousand of you left (fingers crossed) and you'd still claim guns are cool.
I have no idea how it is that you are willing to trust the state with your safety. How you honestly believe that you are their top priority to protect.
However, anybody thinks that the police are there to protect you in America are deluded. Look up "Warren vs District of Columbia." From a mix of wiki and comments.
Warren and Taliaferro heard Douglas' screams from the floor below. Warren called 9-1-1 and told the dispatcher that the house was being burglarized, and requested immediate assistance. The police showed up, looked at the house, and left.
They again heard Douglas' continuing screams; again called the police; told the officer that the intruders had entered the home, and requested immediate assistance. Once again, a police officer assured them that help was on the way. Well, they didn't even bother to dispatch anybody that time.
The result of them not dispatching anybody is the home invaders found the people who called the cops. For the next
fourteen hours the captive women were raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon one another, and made to submit to the sexual demands of Kent and Morse.
In a 4–3 decision, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals affirmed the trial courts' dismissal of the complaints against the District of Columbia and individual members ... based on the public duty doctrine ruling that "the duty to provide public services is owed to the public at large, and, absent a special relationship between the police and an individual,
no specific legal duty exists". The Court thus adopted the trial court's determination that no special relationship existed between the police and appellants, and therefore no specific legal duty existed between the police and the appellants.
So, the police do not need to protect you, and don't even need to show up at your house while you are being raped for hours on end. And if there is no "specific legal duty" that exists for them, what do you suggest? I would imagine that you can keep a gun or a bottle of lube on your night side table. Sounds like you have made your choice.
