SNIP IMHO if you're investigating criminal offenses, you should be a cop or be with a cop.
There was a time in this great nation where citizens did their own investigating. Where citizens swore out their own warrants, and performed the searches themselves (and the magistrate who issued the warrant paid treble damages if the oath or affidavit did not contain probable cause).
There was a time in this great nation where the grand jury was not the lapdog of prosecutors and not under the thumb of the courts, and could--and did--investigate whoever and where ever they thought crime existed, without necessarily waiting for a politically motivated prosecutor to bring them an accusation.
Cops were most definitely
not a part of the founding scheme.
We already have far too many cops, and far too many guns in the hands of government employees.
Give them guns today, and ten years from now you will have the AG's SWAT team. And, fifteen years from now there will be no-knock raids on Medicare fraud cases because "she was flushing evidence down the toilet."
Ken's Kops (investigators) can carry guns just like any other citizen. If they want to go to a prohibited place with their personal defense weapon, let Ken get his investigators added to the exemptions from prohibited places just like a cop.
