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[1StrongBlackMan]

48. Funny you should mention that ...

My sister has dated several cops ... the most recent one was a Deputy Sheriff and SWAT member. He and I had a lively dinner time discussion about the 2nd Amendment and President Obama's being an existential threat to the "right to bear arms." It was my first time meeting him; but he no longer speaks to me because of the discussion that followed my asking him two questions:

1) When is President Obama going to start taking your "right" to have guns? And,
2) Why is gun ownership so very important?

To the former, he answered "he already has (per rush, beck and Levine)." I asked him to research it and get back to me.

The dialogue following his answer to the second question stills provides me with hours of amusement (4 years later), as I recall watching his head explode. He, of course, answered we need the right to bear private arms to "protect us from the government!"

I asked him: "Your SWAT, right?"

RW Cop Guy: "That's right!"

Me: "When you're on a SWAT call, you deal with some pretty bad characters ... Huh?"

RW Cop Guy: "That's right!

Me: "And most of those bad guys are armed when you go after them, right?"

RW Cop Guy: "That's right!"

(At this point my Mom threw me that 'Don't do this' look that moms across the world are known for, when they know something bad is about to happen.)

Me: "Let me ask you ... When you and your guys go through that bad guy's door, is there ever a question in your mind that, no matter how many guns that bad guy has, no matter how many bad guys are with the bad guy you're going after ... at the end of the day, you and your guys are going to be the only ones with the guns and that bad guy, and everyone that gets in your way, is going to be in handcuffs, dead, or dying?

RW Cop Guy: "That's right ... we're good at what we do and we have no fear."

(Mom's head dipped a bit, knowing what was coming next, because this was why my Law and Order Dad wasn't big on the 2nd Amendment.)"

Me: "So, what makes you think YOUR having a gun is going to matter? When/if the government ever decides to get your guns, it's gun over!"

RW Cop Guy without saying another word ... Left the table and left the restaurant.