If you were involved in many 2A communities, support of police was always a deeply divided issue, since both sides knew that cops would ultimately be the ones to carry out any kind of gun control measure.
I think it can be conditional - support local guys that are doing the right thing, sheriffs etc, support efforts against organized crime, but don't support fedrats and call out your guys when they overstep.
Strategically you don't have much of a choice. Even if ACAB you've gotta throw in your lot with whoever holds power in your town. But hopefully your sheriff is one of the good guys.
ACAB was always one of those things that everyone not on the Far Left rejected out of contrarianism. A problem with much of the Right's positions is they feel compelled to just be the opposite of the Left on anything ("Ultra Rich abusing their wealth to bully small communities? Would be communism to tell them otherwise, best champion it!"), even when they have no reason to be.
Rejecting ACAB because their solutions are retarded, or to deny them an inch for the mile? Valid. Actually acting like Cops are your friends or are heroes of any sort? Retarded.
If all cops were bastards, the far left wouldn't be saying it. Their complaint is that not enough cops are bastards, and there are still some who will put a bullet in a violent Democrat rather than standing by to hold their victims down as they have their way with the community.
It doesn't matter if all are, as long as they all have the power to be with no real consequence. Tomorrow every cop in your town could decide to personally fuck with you on a whim, and you'd have no recourse against that. History is littered with that in fact being the case not irregularly.
The Left thinks they are bastards for when they sometimes behave properly, but they behave improperly just as often. And you won't know which one you are going to have until its already upended or even ruined your life.
That's the official flag of the fucking country.
As the years go on there is one thing that I'm starting to agree with the far left on: ACAB.
I won't go as far as ACAB but maybe Many/Most Cops Are Bad. They're the enforcers of the system, and if the system is bad, so are they.
But certainly ABCAB. All British Cops Are Bad. Comically, awfully, offensively bad.
If you were involved in many 2A communities, support of police was always a deeply divided issue, since both sides knew that cops would ultimately be the ones to carry out any kind of gun control measure.
I think it can be conditional - support local guys that are doing the right thing, sheriffs etc, support efforts against organized crime, but don't support fedrats and call out your guys when they overstep.
Strategically you don't have much of a choice. Even if ACAB you've gotta throw in your lot with whoever holds power in your town. But hopefully your sheriff is one of the good guys.
ACAB was always one of those things that everyone not on the Far Left rejected out of contrarianism. A problem with much of the Right's positions is they feel compelled to just be the opposite of the Left on anything ("Ultra Rich abusing their wealth to bully small communities? Would be communism to tell them otherwise, best champion it!"), even when they have no reason to be.
Rejecting ACAB because their solutions are retarded, or to deny them an inch for the mile? Valid. Actually acting like Cops are your friends or are heroes of any sort? Retarded.
If all cops were bastards, the far left wouldn't be saying it. Their complaint is that not enough cops are bastards, and there are still some who will put a bullet in a violent Democrat rather than standing by to hold their victims down as they have their way with the community.
It doesn't matter if all are, as long as they all have the power to be with no real consequence. Tomorrow every cop in your town could decide to personally fuck with you on a whim, and you'd have no recourse against that. History is littered with that in fact being the case not irregularly.
The Left thinks they are bastards for when they sometimes behave properly, but they behave improperly just as often. And you won't know which one you are going to have until its already upended or even ruined your life.