re: The growth of law enforcement is bad for society

Happens every time. A significant percentage of people in a country abandon God - the country descends into chaos and violence. Whereupon to protect themselves against crime of every sort, they create for themselves a police state. Instead of electing Constitutionalist, they elect socialist marxist who enact legislation to strip them of their 2nd and lst Amendment rights. Unable to defend themselves against lawless demoniacs, the police state takes away their right to own weapons - and confiscates privately owned weapons. Happens every time.

...if men were angels.