Either you want police to protect or you don’t

There are a segment of people in this country who don’t want anyone to have guns. Many of those same people all of a sudden also have a huge problem with police.

It begs the question: What the hell do these people want? Utopia? Because that isn’t happening.

First — and let’s just get this out of the way — the U.S. government will never go door to door and take everyone’s guns away. If our government tried that, they’d be inciting a second Civil War. No one wants that, so it won’t happen. But, that doesn’t mean a like-minded government won’t try and strip its citizens of their rights to obtain certain types of weapons and/or ammunition.

Last week in San Bernardino, Calif. — in a state with some of the toughest gun laws in the nation — a couple who the Federal Bureau of Investigation alleges has ties to the terrorist group ISIS walked into a holiday party and killed 14 of their co-workers while wounding several others. They weren’t criminals and had obtained their guns legally, according to The New York Times.

It took police armed with assault weapons and assault vehicles to stop them.

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