Cause roofers have people potentially shooting at them every day when they go on the job..... Oh wait.
The "potential" that someone may, possibly, shoot at them is not at all the same thing as "putting their life on the line every day".
The overwhelming majority of cops go their entire career without either a.) having a gun pulled on them (much less being shot at) or b.) drawing their own firearm.
Most cops are at far less risk to life and limb on a daily basis than your average commuter is walking across a busy city intersection.
Joe Citizen is hardly trained or well prepared to handle any criminal situation. People freeze up, they panic, and they don't do well.
That's because Joe Citizen mistakenly entrusts his safety and security to law enforcement though, paradoxically, it is perfectly well known, and there is legal precedent for the fact, that cops bear absolutely no responsibility for any individual citizen's safety or security.
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away", and all that.
If there wasn't this idiot illusion that cops will keep you safe more people would take responsibility for their own safety, would be better trained, and better prepared.
There's a reason you hardly ever hear stories about the average citizen taking down the bad guy on their own.
Because the liberal media likes to play down self-sufficiency and the effective use of firearms in self defense.
And since most people down dig any deeper than that they never hear of the many, many, many instances of citizens "taking down the bad guy on their own".
But obviously there's no need to "enforce laws", right? After all, people are naturally good and won't take advantage of their neighbors, right?
I don't know whether to call that a red herring, a strawman, an irrelevant tangent, or what.
Of course there's a need to "enforce laws".
Nobody is calling for anarchy, or at least I'm not.
The strong prey on the weak without law enforcement.
Newsflash - the strong prey on the weak
with law enforcement.
There are only something like 765,000 sworn police officers nationally, and they're working in three shifts.
On average there are only 255,000 cops on duty in America at any given time.
In a nation of 319 million people that works out to about to about one cop on duty for every 1250 citizens.
I have a tough time knowing exactly what both of my kids are doing at the same time.
There is no way one cop could possibly know what 1250 people are doing at the same time.
Cops can't, and don't, for the most part, "prevent" crime.
They deter it to some extent, but they don't prevent it.
They step in after a crime has occurred and, if possible, apprehend offenders so the judicial system can punish them.
The punishment meted out by the judicial system is what really deters criminals.
Only idiots actually think that their Rambo and can handle any situation guns a blazing with little to no training or understanding of the situation
Only idiots actually think that cops risk their lives on a daily basis, prevent crime, and keep people safe.
What ensures safety is hardening the target.
You said it yourself, "the strong prey on the weak".
Putting cops on the street doesn't make the weak any stronger.
Putting guns in the hands of the citizenry makes them stronger, "God made men, Sam Colt made them equal."
You're a sheep advocating for a nation of sheep and laboring under the illusion that some idiot who calls himself a "sheepdog" will keep you safe.
