Quote Originally Posted by Pannonian View Post
Would community police be that much better when the locality is awash in guns? If there's a high probability of encountering guns on your patrol, I'd imagine any police patrol would be on edge somewhat. There are lots of policing ideas that are possible here but not in the US because we don't have a gun culture.
There is examples of it within the Free Syrian holdings. They intentionally do not have guns and it they get a warm response with the locals.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-39458062

Unless you are suggesting that the USA is worse than war-torn Syria in midst of a civil war...