How GUNS EVERYWHERE make Police and Communities LESS SAFE.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/12/22/how-guns-make-police-less-safe-their-jobs-more-difficult-and-communities-less-trusting/?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost

Guns change the equation in so many ways. They make it harder for police to retreat, and more likely that a stand-off that might have been resolved peacefully will escalate. They make it harder for police to give suspects the benefit of the doubt, and more likely that a suspected criminal may not deserve it.
They make it easier for a mentally ill man to forever alter two families' lives in the name of "revenge."
After the killing of New York police officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos over the weekend, it feels perhaps more satisfying to place blame elsewhere: on protesterswho've cried for better policing, on public officials who acknowledge that the protesters' grievances are valid. But both claims deflect attention toward a vague culprit — "anti-police rhetoric" — and away from a more concrete and systemic one: the ever-presence and easy availability of guns.