The end game is not for the citizens to lose respect for the LEO's the end game is for the LEO's to lose all respect for the citizens.
If they can accomplish that anything will fly, gun confiscation included. Once we lose their respect the relationship is broken and the police will become a tool of the state to be used against the public.
Think they have done that on a small scale in a couple of areas. Nothing to do with respect, just what the officers were ordered and trained to do. They aren't stupid so they know that is just part of it and since they aren't drafted they obviously support confiscating weapons.
