The Russians are "getting it" on gun control.

[Trojan Bayonet]

The Russian citizenry know what we've known all along - that the police only come to document and report crimes. However the DeLeons and Portatinos of our corner of the world don't understand that police arrive after our valuables have been looted or there's blood dripping on the pavement.

http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2011/09/abolish-police-arm-citizens-sagra-model.html

[Kokopelli]

Good read. I liked this quote at the end...

“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or, if during the periods of mass arrests ... people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood that they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?"

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

[nick]

Complaints to the police availed nothing, since their duty was to maintain “order” – that is, to enforce the will of the local elite – rather than to protect the rights of the innocent.

Isn't that what the Supreme court recently said?