We need cops as much as they need us tax payers to pay for their existence, I only wish that cops treated us legal firearm owners with less prejudice and paid more attention
chasing gangs and seizing their illegal firearms and thus reducing firearm related incidents which somehow always hit law abiding owners the hardest way.
The cop who gave advice to this guy who distrusts police told him to stay away from committing any illegal things, so if he lives somewhere in middle of no where and shoots his good old hunting rifle on his private range he is all legal and safe, however, if he takes out his good old 44 magnum revolver out to shoot it at the same private range he is now in violation of laws and will be persecuted as a criminal (if caught in wrong doing of course). And so Mr John Doe, father of 4, good husband, hard working farmer who never used drugs, doesn't smoke or drink, never stole anything in his whole life, becomes a criminal, loses all his firearms and ends up in prison (unless he pays his violation fines)...and ends up looked upon, treated and despised by cops as a criminal.