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meals23 15 points ago +15 / -0

The citizenry are already police

All a police officer is is a regular citizen expected to perform the duties of a citizen in maintaining law and order on a full time basis, but the origin of their capabilities and authority were that all citizens had the right to make arrests and take prisoners to a Magistrate to be judged for their crimes against the citizens of a town

There is no need to establish formal authority for the citizenry to be recognized as arbiters of their own communities and the guardians of the natural rights of their fellow countrymen, as that authority is already granted by being a United States citizen.

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unable_afternoon 3 points ago +3 / -0

The police are just a well regulated militia that’s 100% controlled by the government, which if you think about it completely goes against the whole point of a well regulated militia.

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unable_afternoon 2 points ago +2 / -0

Nowhere is that ever implied. The idea of militias back then was the same as it is today. The way to secure the existence of a free state has not changed. The military is the government. What you’re saying is like describing the founding revolutionaries as an extension of the red coats. The military does not water the tree of liberty. If anything it’s in the interests of the military and other government mercenaries (police) to prevent the tree of liberty from being watered.

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