What is the use of having to toys and not using them?
When the neighbor went to police academy he was taught disdain for "civilians". The police stick to themselves. Now he is not friendly as he used to be. And there IS a movement to empower the government more and more.
It is not only DC that wants noone to have a gun, a local cop at a neighborhood meeting stated that he would put anyone on the ground if he saw them taking a gun to or from their car (ever go to the range?). A "regular" officer was joking about the "denizens of the dark"--the SWAT, so they may be an abberation even in the PD.
My son got stopped in a DUI checkpoint. He wasn't. They are supposed to be legal, but how can they channel everyone into one lane and check them? Coming home from a night job is not probable cause.