White Settlement Aside, Letting Everyone be the Sheriff isn't Wise

  One thought would be to have more deputies. A lot of more deputies.
  We look at the White Settlement, Texas, shooting, at how the church had a number of people carrying guns, and how they shot the shooter down.
   It becomes fresh argument for giving everyone a gun. But, should it be? Those who had the guns -- those who shot the shooter down -- were designated by the church.
   There are two ways of going about law enforcement:
  One, let the vigilantes do it. Allow everyone to bring their guns onto your private property, and to use them at their own discretion. More or less, let everyone who wants to appoint themselves as sheriff, appoint themselves as sheriff.
  Two, deputize enough people. Instead of letting everyone declare themselves the sheriff, pick your officers. Run background checks on them. Train them on when and when not to use their guns -- and how to use them. And, then deputize them.
   In the wild west, when law enforcement was running right, when the sheriff could see he had a bigger problem than he himself could handle, he went out and deputized however many he needed to cover the situation. When law enforcement wasn't running right, you had vigilante justice, everyone -- authorized or not -- on the loose, performing their own form of justice.
   Being a sheriff isn't something you should be able to declare yourself. Should we really allow everyone to do that? What took place in White Settlement, the same, it remains to this day unwise.