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Quote from Nelson Lund,

"[T]he police do not and cannot protect law-abiding citizens from criminal violence. ... This thought may not occur to wealthy people who can shelter themselves in low-crime enclaves and who care not at all about their less fortunate neighbors. But no one knows it better than the police, who scrupulously preserve their own right to carry firearms on and off duty (and often after they retire as well) even while some of them advocate disarming those whom the police cannot protect."



By:

Nelson Lund (more quotes by Nelson Lund or books by/about Nelson Lund)

Source:

The Past and Future of the Individual's Right to Bear Arms, 31 GA LAW REV. 1, 61-63 (1996).

Categories:

Crime, Guns, Law, Police, Protection, Rights, Violence

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