TOP TEN: WHY ARE THE POLICE SO ANGRY?

TOP TEN REASONS WHY POLICE ARE ANGRY IN AMERICA.

1) Congress gives community police departments surplus war equipment
and then tells them, "No rough stuff!"

2) States and communities do not provide programs to train police what
to do when there are protests.

3) The Federal Government makes and has laws to register guns and provide
oversight for the gun and ammunition industry. State governors and legislators
tell local police they will be arrested if they implant Federal Law.

4) The Chamber of Commerce and tourist industry urge open carry laws to attract
gun toting conventions and visitors.  A visitor gets drunk and creates a threatening
commotion. We  call the police.

5) We vote for representatives and officials who buy war surplus guns and
ammunition to help police maintain the peace and then find it adds to chaos.

6) We claim qualified people do not apply for police jobs. We do little to
attract young men and women who want to serve their communities as police
officers.

7) We engage in busy work designing and redesigning guns and equipment for
safety as men, women and children are shot each day on our city streets. The police are faulted.

8) We allow and invite vigilantes with concealed guns and shotguns to protect our
families rather than regulate the weapons industry.

9) We cringe from anything that smacks of gun registration as police are shot
by unknown assailants.

10) And finally, a policeman is held for murder and we run out to buy still more
guns, legal or not to protect ourselves.

Maybe these are some of the reasons police officers are angry and take out
their hostility on the people they are sworn to protect.