I have a default positive of LE. I find your post offensive and uninformed. I'm not ignorant nor a retard.
I served 21 years in the Armed Forces and believe in the Rule of Law. Your proclamation of anarchy is insulting at it's lowest form, you then throw out the racist card. Immature at best....and you call yourself a responsible gun owner?
You're naive, at best, my friend. I'm not trying to be pejorative. Law enforcement is an arm of government, and as the founders of this nation believed, government is to be mistrusted and warded against at all times. That any given person is endowed with the power to rescind your freedoms at his or her discretion should be terrifying to you, whether you believe it's necessary or not. At minimum you should be skeptical of the motives of law enforcement, as they are granted
a priori presumption of honesty in a court of law, even though they're exactly as human, and therefore fallible, as you or me, and they are given precisely zero more scrutiny with regard to trustworthiness than anyone else before being rewarded with a badge and a gun. On top of this theoretically-deserved skepticism, it is demonstrated on a daily basis that there are countless law enforcement "officers" (you should scoff at that mis-accreditation, being ex-mil) who are among the worst of society's power-mad scoff-laws. Whether these represent a majority or a minority, their sheer number, and the utter ubiquity with which other so-called LEOs cover for their misdeeds, should give any rational citizen tremendous pause before granting them default deference, let alone respect.
I heartily endorse your belief in the rule of law. All the more reason not to give automatic respect to law enforcement. They, more than any other member of society, are best equipped and positioned to abrogate it.
Finally, the second paragraph of my previous post had nothing to do with the first paragraph. Yard Sale
should try to oust the lawless bastard who holds the position of Sheriff. Also, and unrelated, there are a crap load of racist a-holes in this country who automatically associate Islam with terrorism. To hell with those people. My joke about Sheriff vs Sharif was a comment on the unabridged and extralegal power of law enforcement in this country. Then I realized that some jackass would think I was endorsing racism, so I made a point about that.