A Pew Research Center survey released January 11 shows that police officers support protecting citizens’ gun rights over passing more gun control by a margin of 3 to 1.
The survey also shows that two out of three officers oppose an “assault weapons” ban.
Interestingly these are larger departments. If they had polled a cohort including the smaller rural departments, the numbers would have been even more K.
If cops were r-strategists they would want everyone disarmed, so they could personally run roughshod, without any threat of hardship or cost. But these K-psychologies are not concerned with logically seeking personal advantage.
Cops also know that if citizens are armed, the crime scenes the cops report to will entail cleaning up the dead bodies of criminals more often than cleaning up the dead bodies of innocent citizens. That enforcement of K-selection makes any risk which cops would face from armed citizens well worthwhile according to their psychology.
Outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch said the federal government has a mandate to hold police officers accountable for their actions.
“You’ve got to hold police accountable, you’ve got to help them hold themselves accountable, and you’ve got to build in community accountability,” she told the Associated Press in an interview published Saturday.
The problems K-strategists face with government are rarely the ground-level K-strategists who are sent to execute government policy. The problems are the rabbits at the top. The rabbit strategy is to pit K-strategists against each other, and as the apocalypse approaches, expect that strategy to increase in its expression. Fight those K-strategists who the rabbits send, and you will please the rabbits who sent them.
What makes this a fascinating time is that the man at the very top is now an ultra-K-strategist, meaning the rabbits just below him are going to not only have trouble deploying government K’s to harass civilian K’s. They are going to have trouble remaining in their leadership positions – unless they can find a way to pit some K-strategists against the Donald.
Pray for the Donald.
Spread r/K Theory, because we want the rabbits separated from the wolves when the Apocalypse hits
