Anachronism
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You spent all this writing based on what you inferred from my post and nothing on what it actually said.
I based my response on the reality of the situation, rather than wasting my time commenting on an idea so preposterous as to not be worth my writing about. There is no way to institute an ironclad response rate measurement. It's been tried in many places and it rarely, if ever, works out.
To Serve and Protect.
Doesn't work that way in reality, and they're not even required to actually try, as has been pointed out by others in this thread.
Whether it's a gun or some other form of weapon, personal self-defense should always be the FIRST means of protecting oneself. As SHOULD have been pointed out by Philadelphia Police to a woman some years back who ended up dying of stab wound within reach of two very interesting objects in her own home some months after being talked into getting a restraining order rather than a Pennsylvania CCW permit. The two items.... An aluminum softball bat, and her NCAA Conference Home Run Championship trophy from a couple years earlier. It seems that the police had never told her that she had a right to defend herself. In fact they'd told her not to even try, just to call them if her ex-boyfriend showed up. 27 minutes after the first phone call came into the dispatcher, the officer showed up for her PRIORITY ONE call to find her DEAD.