🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <7qkilp$j2s@dfw-ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>, Merlin Dorfman
<dorfman@netcom13.netcom.com> wrote:

> In ca.general Dick <tjdick@my-deja.com> wrote:
> : Oops!  Forgot to answer your question, Merlin:
> 
> : DICK:
> :> : 84% of line officers (the ones who do the work, not the chiefs)
> : favor
> :> : private ownership of firearms.
> :>
> 
> : MERLIN:
> :>      I have to question that statistic...and wonder why the brass
> :> would have an opinion so different from the guys in the trenches...
> :> which used to include said brass.  (There are very few political
> :> appointments of police chiefs, etc., who were never "line
> :> officers" themselves.)
> 
> : As I mentioned, the San Diego County Police Officers Association did a
> : study two years ago and that is where that figure comes from.
> 
>      Like all surveys, if not repeated/repeatable, one has to 
> wonder about the agenda of those who ran it.  (You do question
> surveys run by NOW, for instance, don't you?)
>      After all, officers "in the trenches" are much more likely
> to be shot by armed citizens than chiefs are.

Oddly enough, they seem to trust the law-abiding citizen a *lot*
more than the criminals they have to deal with.

They also are quite clear on the fact that there just aren't
enough officers to go around at the best of times...and they
have families to worry about, just like the rest of us.