text: Law enforcement officers are, as their name suggests, people entrusted by the government to enforce the law that government lays down. The key word in this case is entrusted. Even today, with terrorism, high security everywhere and political unrest, every facet of society is becoming more distrusting of the general public, who they suspect want to blow them up (talk about pathological paranoid schitzophrenia hey?), and these are the people in high positions of power. Trust takes a long time to develop, and so a chain of command has been established whereby the more dangerous and the longer time you spend serving the government's interests, the better the departments of that government will treat you, including law enforcement. There are likewise stereotype offenders in the gen. pop. that police target, for the same reason: less service to the gov't = worse treatment.\nThe point of all this is to emphasize that a government is not going to allow a law to be amended, changed or repealed that takes responsibility away from the people the gov't trusts, so that the gen. pop. is a little more comfortable.\nSo my answer then, is if you want something done that a powerful force is against, you need to be more powerful that that force, or atleast a threat to their sense of power. This means building gen. pop. support for your cause, not by petition (these are ignored without the following), and not with a public rally in a park that affects noone, but with actions that undermine the power that government wields over the gen. pop. and sending that message up the chain of command that they are losing control and must yield to your demands. Always remember, you are not at war with the government, they are not your enemy! you are revolting (starting a revolution) that will benefit both you and them, and you are asking assertively for their help in justifying such change. Guns, violence, aggression and injury/death will not solve anything; infact it will make it worse, escalating out of control where all concerned forget the point and just try to stay alive and out of jail (how did I get myself into this mess?). This is not only about improving crime - anticrime interaction procedures, but about maintaining societal peace. It's about sending a big message of popular dissatisfaction and unrest, not with handcuffs and cellbars. Play smart, not hard!