Gun issues will indeed play a role in the 2016 election and they should be front and center. We need candidates who are not associated with the gun lobby and do not have a far right interpretation of the Second Amendment.
As to police officers not being civilians and me pretending that they are.....
yeah - just me all by myself .... OH! .... and these authorities on the meaning of words agree with me also.
Google definitions
ci·vil·ian
səˈvilyən/
noun
noun: civilian; plural noun: civilians
1.
a person not in the armed services or the police force.
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Merriam-Webster
Civilian - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary
ci·vil·ian noun \sə-ˈvil-yən also -ˈvi-yən\
:
a person who is not a member of the military or of a police or firefighting force
Full Definition of CIVILIAN
1
:* a specialist in Roman or modern civil law
2
a :* one not on active duty in the armed services or not on a police or firefighting force
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freeonline dictionary
civilian - definition of civilian by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.
ci·vil·ian (s
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n)
n.1. A person following the pursuits of civil life, especially one who is not an active member of the military, the police, or a belligerent group.
2. A person who does not belong to a particular group or engage in a particular activity.
3. A specialist in Roman or civil law.

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Civilian | Define Civilian at Dictionary.com
ci·vil·ian [si-vil-yuhn] Show IPA
noun
1.
a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, police, or fire fighting organization.
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civilian: definition of civilian in Oxford dictionary - American English (US)
Definition of civilian in English
civilian
Syllabification: (ci·vil·ian)
Pronunciation: /səˈvilyən/
noun
a person not in the armed services or the police force.
The desire to rewrite the dictionary is based purely on the extremist belief that the far right wants the same firepower as the government when the day of right wing jubilee arrives and they have to take to the streets to do battle killing their fellow Americans. To do that the far right invent their own meanings of words and ignore reality.