[AnimalMuppet]

Did you read the whole article? I realize that the two sentences you quote are in there, and taken by themselves, they can be viewed as infuriating. But his overall point is quite different.

What he's saying is more like "You're not going to win the physical confrontation, so don't try to start one, and don't act like you're going to." That's pretty good advice. And he advocates going ahead and suing the police if they are in the wrong, and videotaping them, and and and... He's not just holding an authoritarian view.

[bediger4000]

I did the entire article. I realize that he wrote sentences that contradict with "Do what I say because I have a gun", but they seemed tangential, almost as if edited in later. So no, despite your interpretation, which I agree with (not going to win the physical confrontation), I think his basic viewpoint is very un-American, and demands a subservience that would only rest well on a subject, but not a citizen.

There's a huge systematic bias in favor of law enforcement in the US justice system. I can't count on suing later and getting any relief. Therefore, I believe it's dangerous to me to have most or all law enforcement holding a viewpoint like this.