drglnc wrote:I would argue the song does in fact condone violence against the police...
Got a gun that my granddad gave me
They say one day they're gonna round up
Well, that **** might fly in the city, good luck
in the extremely unlikely event that laws were passed to actually make "granddads" gun illegal, who would enforce that new law? Its the same as the "from my cold dead hand" comments...
the implication is that the speaker would fight to the death to keep that gun... and if the cops are the ones enforcing the new law, who exactly is the speaker going to fight to the death?
No REAL police man who has sworn an oath like the one below which is from the City of Phoenix would ever enforce any new law like that, effectively nullifying it. If he tried, he's not a police man, he's an activist thug like the politicians who created it and lied when they took their oath.
Quote:Oath of Office
I (state your name), do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, and defend them against enemies, foreign and domestic, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge, the duties of a peace officer, to the best of my ability, so help me God.
https://www.phoenix.gov/police/resources-information/oath-of-office
I only picked this police officers oath because of its specific traditional American language for a government position.
I know there are other oaths out there that are so vague they are like a "living document" and utterly meaningless.