To be fair, aye, I think I understand see the point you're making. Maybe it's just more of a US thing, because very few people (including cops) have guns here in Euroland.

Still, if this is the main reason, I get why you'd want guns in that environment, but parallel to that surely should be the desire to tighten gun control laws to a similar point - restrict guns down so neither rightwingers nor police have so many in the first place. As successfully works elsewhere.