In simpler terms, police are not there to protect average citizens. O, it happens sometimes. There are brave police officers who put their lives on the line for strangers. And these members of the service are to be applauded. But that is not the everyday occurrence one might imagine.
Most police work occurs after the fact.
But none of this matters to the gun-grabbers. The police and the government are always there to protect us. Footnotes Yale Law Journal, Volume 99, pp. One is reminded of the later event in Milwaukee when police intercepted a terrified and half-naked teenaged boy apparently fleeing an older man. The young man was shortly thereafter murdered, as were several others after that horrible gaffe by the police.