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VioletZer0 posted...

This follows even today as the left wing very much advocates for recognizing the evils of the police

The American left wing, perhaps, but that has more to do with the militarization of American law enforcement which, in turn, is a response to a heavily armed populace.

Police in many other countries are respected on a bipartisan basis, as they largely dispense with the "cowboy cop" attitude that seems so alarmingly pervasive in American law enforcement. As an example, in the UK it's rare for officer shootings to reach double digits in any given year. Most of the cops there don't even carry firearms. They don't need to - their odds of running into a heavily armed assailant are slim.

VioletZer0 posted...

is generally accepted that in the left wing vs right wing spectrum that left wing generally represents equality while right wing represents hierarchy.

Left wing also is generally in favour of bigger government and more regulation, while right wing is in favour of smaller government and less regulation, which is why the left generally supports gun control and the right generally opposes it.

Gun control is not an equality vs. hierarchy issue. Whether guns are restricted or not, everyone is impacted equally; gun laws don't apply to only part of the populace, they apply to everyone. In fact, if guns were completely unrestricted, that would actually make things *less* equal, because the rich could afford to arm themselves better than the poor, whereas under a complete gun ban all are rendered equal in the absence of their ability to own firearms, but even then it's a flimsy argument.
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