Guns make people overconfident.

[Steve]

Certainly not!!! But many of the precepts overlap.

Maybe I would have worded it better if I had used the words physical confrontation instead of war.

Sounds good. I’m concerned with the militarization of the police, so I’ll freely admit I’m wary of using this kind of language to describe any kind of healthy operation. Police aren’t soldiers and criminals aren’t enemy. There is some overlap, but the size of that overlap depends significantly on one’s fundamental views about guns, violence, citizenship, and the core purpose of police. (All of which is way too political for this site).