>>>Keeping in mind that many in law enforcement and the military are on the side of gun rights,
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>>I've been wondering about that as I haven't noticed any news about how the police unions feel about gun control. I assumed that the police would be all for gun control - perhaps I'm wrong about that?
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>Don't know about all cops, but a bunch of police chiefs have spoken out in favor of gun control since Newtown.

"Chiefs" and "since Newtown" make this sound like a media campaign. I guess nobody becomes a police chief while being tone deaf to the current winds of politics, and likewise the media channels do the same and know how to find people who will have some merit and say what the current wind likes.

I've seen this done far more roughly in Sloba's days. They'd always have enough people to speak in favor of the flavor of the day - just as they were finding total opposites two days before that, when the policy was the opposite. I'd rather hear what people who know cops privately have to say, than what media dig out.