re: #235 Obdicut
Far more cops are killed by handguns. Again, every cop I know would like to see handguns banned for private use, or incredibly tightly regulated.
I am presuming you live in a larger urban area? Because here, where it can take the police 20 minutes to arrive after your 911 call, none of the police I know feel that way.
The urban/rural divide is a far more critical factor in understanding this issue than most people seem to want to give it.