Has this caused the average policeman to assume that a lawfully armed citizen will use a gun to kill him and that the appropriate response is to use deadly force first?

Who should the NRA support, the cop, or the people?

(134:6.6) If you take every form of modern mechanical armaments and all types of explosives away from strong nations, they will fight with fists, stones, and clubs

(134:5.2) There are only two levels of relative sovereignty on an inhabited world: the spiritual free will of the individual mortal and the collective sovereignty of mankind as a whole.

This is a very real part of all of our lives. We are all experiencing this, many, firsthand.

I do not think so.

I would like to address the other thing that's happening: The role the "free" press is playing in fanning the flames of discord and distrust and how it's the main factor. Like most compromised institutions, the press being motivated by profit first, is hard at work to insure that it controls our minds. They do this by falsely emphasizing strife and conflict, which keeps us tuned in. They are betraying their sacred ideal of true journalism and knowingly report with great bias.

(81:6.9) Knowledge is power. Invention always precedes the acceleration of cultural development on a world-wide scale. Science and invention benefited most of all from the printing press, and the interaction of all these cultural and inventive activities has enormously accelerated the rate of cultural advancement.

(71:2.10) Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear.

(71:2.11) Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated—taught to think intelligently and plan wisely—freedom usually does more harm than good.

(118:7.4) Sin in time-conditioned space clearly proves the temporal liberty—even license—of the finite will. Sin depicts immaturity dazzled by the freedom of the relatively sovereign will of personality while failing to perceive the supreme obligations and duties of cosmic citizenship.

“Peter, put up your sword. They who take the sword shall perish by the sword. Do you not understand that it is the Father’s will that I drink this cup?

And those who "clamor" for equal rights (one must presume the author above means that whites or the "majority" of Americans have no interest in nor should they have any interest in "equal rights" - absurd on its very premise - I'm pretty sure both the Constitution and the Supreme Court are also interested in equal rights!) are those who suffer most by a lack of equal protection under the law (including over half the population when women's rights are included...not to mention them as victims of violence most often) and which so called "minorities" are also the most victimized by gun violence....those crazy "minorities" (a rather US centric and myopic perspective on a much larger and far more complicated issue - who's a minority globally?), what ARE they thinking??!!

So, according to the reasoning of the statement above, those who fight FOR gun rights are AGAINST equal rights? Or those who fight for equal rights are against gun ownership?

Or is it that the statement above means that equal rights are bad while gun ownership is good? If we only had fewer civil rights and more guns, our problems would be over??!! The "equalizer" is more guns and not more rights? REALLY!!??

This topic is political, it is nationalistically USA, narrow in scope, and inherently flawed "reasoning" based on fear. Do Americans still need to be armed with military grade assault weapons to defend ourselves from the tyranny of our own government?

As for totalitarianism and gun control...you mean like the Brits, and Dutch, and French, and Danes? It's kind of ironic that the Brits are the reason for the US Second Amendment but they abolished slavery before us and have so much less one on one violence than us. As do the Canadians but they have more guns than us....but not assault grade, high capacity, crowd killing weapons...like we protect here so diligently!

Speaking of being duped by the free press, for those who dig deeper, there is significant empirical evidence that demonstrates the reality that in the USA and globally, there has been a steady decline in violent deaths by all sources over the past 6 decades.

Let us be very, very afraid. And assuage our fear with guns. Which most often kills either the owner or a family member, often the children in "gun houses". Yes, quite the solution.

Evolution is not pretty, but it is terribly effective.

Perhaps what we need is more educated, employed, and civilized citizens, all of whom enjoy equal protection under the law - regardless of race, creed, religion, dress, diet, etc.?!

What a brain trust on display. God save us from such thinking, especially here of all places!! Talk about a lack of real thinking.