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> The Second Amendment has made it very difficult for police to casually come in and slap you around, and that's not a bad thing.

I couldn't agree more.

> However, when they feel that they need to arrest you, well, they're going to bring a veritable army to avoid being causalities...and that's kind of reasonable.

I couldn't disagree more.

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Are you completely unable to see it from the perspective of an arresting officer? I can imagine not wanting to go arrest certain people without a good amount of backup. I don't think they'd need something like this for most arrests of course, definitely not cc theft, but it's not like the idea is complete without merit.

If everybody tried a little bit harder to see things from the point of view of other folks, we'd have way fewer problems.

> Are you completely unable to see it from the perspective of an arresting officer?

Of course I can see it from the officer's perspective. The officer is perfectly rational in wanted to be well armed and well supported, to increase his own security. But when that officer is deliberately doing what these officers were doing, I value the security of the victims far more than the security of the perpetrators.

Ah okay sorry, yeah I agree with that. I didn't realize what you were saying.

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