Rigby5
Diamond Member
No, you don't have the same right to shoot the police. That's the way the law is written. The police do have a right to shoot someone who pulls a gun on them. You also have the right, in most states, to shoot someone who pulls a gun on you.
You can NOT legally write a law giving police more discretion to shoot.
The reason police have any authority at all is because they are working for us, and are subordinate to us.
We give them any authority they have, by us delegating them our authority.
Since we do not have the authority to shoot just from the presence of a weapon, we then can not delegate it to police.
If you think that we are not the source of all legal authority, and that instead legislators are, then you are wrong, because that is not how a democratic republic works.
That would be an authoritarian dictatorship instead.
There is no legal way to give police more authority than any single individual has, in a democratic republic.
The police always have to have less authority because they only work for us, so only have what authority we delegate to them, and not our full legal authority.