&gt; What would you --not wikipedia, the dictionary or politicians-- you (or the person I originally asked) suggest would be the approach to gun control legislation that would allow police officers to not worry about whether or not civilians are armed when approaching them?<p>I gave one: implement national laws and policies equivalent to what&#x27;s in Australia, Sweden, or Japan; wait the few years for use&#x2F;presence of guns to go down; observe that the justifications for the stark use of police force have gone down; no longer permit those justifications.