Just to be clear, you're advocating at best the Black Panther strategy? Or just straight up shooting at police?
With the second amendment, you can simply fire the police without (as much) worry for your family's safety. It would still be bad, but at least you have an option.
So it's not necessarily a violent confrontation. You just get a mayor in place that will stop paying them. A large group of people can often get a mayor to do something if they have a specific proposal.
https://www.governing.com/topics/public-justice-safety/gov-c...
“ The Camden County Police Department rehired most of the laid-off cops, along with nearly 100 other officers, but at much lower salaries and with fewer benefits than they had received from the city.”
It comes from having them, not from using them. You don't have to shoot at gangs robbing everybody at knifepoint if the threat of getting shot deters them from going around robbing everybody at knifepoint.
> And "for a while" can be quite long if you need to find and train a complete new police force.
In practice most of what the police do is paperwork and interviews. If the general population is armed (so the deterrent is still there) then you could take the guns away from the police and never have them leave the police station and still almost all of the policework would get done.
Or my neighbors decide that 2am is a great time for some jackhammering. I threaten to shoot them unless they stop? They threaten to shoot me in turn?
Does this depend on righteous mobs of gun owners assembling and holding an impromptu court martial?
You take a picture of their license plate number and bring it to a courthouse. They show up in court or the court gives you a default judgement and orders their insurance/bank to give you the money.
> Or my neighbors decide that 2am is a great time for some jackhammering.
You make a timestamped recording of the jackhammering and bring it to a courthouse. Do you see where this is going? You don't need police to have courts.
And most of the time you don't even need to use the courts for the same reason you don't need to use the guns -- the other party can predict what will happen and it's easier for everybody to settle things and not go there.
And if they don't show up in court then you win and the court fines them.
The reason it doesn’t happen is because society allows the political to not hold the police accountable.
There is no possibility of sacked police execution a coup , it isn’t an armed confrontation problem
The "replacement" of the RUC with the PSNI was achieved without interruption or total turnover of personnel, but managed to change the ethos and image enough to bring peace enough to Northern Ireland. At the same time, the troops with a record of shooting civilians were withdrawn from the streets.
It's not perfect, but it's definitely a success.