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Their LER only works with the top ranking officer corp of the police departments. Most line LEOs do not support the Brady group.
A while back there was a big uproar because the national Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), donated a chunk of money to the Brady organization. A lot of Line LEOs objected strongly to this use of their dues.
There are a lot of LEOs that see the "Brady bunch" in very much the same light as members of this forum do.
Please refrain from interpreting this as a bash, and please do not start bashing.
I think it's time to realize that belonging to the Fraternal Order of Police is practically equal to belonging to a gun control organization. All members of the FOP lend their collective voices to the organization. When the organization backs taking firearms away from the citizens, it is a gun control group.
This is a binary choice folks, and the FOP has often times chosen to be a ZERO just like the Brady, VPC and others of their mindset.
http://www.rangerfop.com/Guns%20release.doc
check out this "
discussion" about the parks issue. Divided, yes. But, no attempt to "re-steer" the direction. No uproar or exodus from the lodge. For all the ballyhooing about supporting the 2nd and disapproving of the actions, that's it.
Passive acceptance.
There are archived previous discussions of this in which it came to light that some of the park rangers had busted local/state leos. FOIA confirmed 2 incidents, 1 of which is on my site. These people have a mindset that so long as THEY are armed, everything else is secondary.
"Guns for me, but not for thee".
Years ago we were told howLE would get behind national reciprocity if we supported it for LE.So, what group has come out and supported national citizen reciprocity? How about which LE groups have supported the Parks ban repeal?
If you're in law enforcement and reading this, you probably say that you support the rights to keepand bear arms. You may shoot regularly, or instruct, you may be a pillar of the community. Do you belong to FOP, or another organization which advocates for law enforcement and yet supports gun control?
I'd be genuinely interested to hear your rationalization for that.
More importantly, I'd be interested to know how we can end this division and bringour respective factions together to fight this.