evidence: Disarming police can also make police officers themselves safer. Policing is not a uniquely dangerous job to begin with — while fatal injuries are more common than in typical employment, the rates are comparable to those for HVAC installation workers.118 Police fatalities do not even primarily result from violent encounters.119 While American police and their defenders might argue that this is precisely because they are armed, police in countries that routinely make use of unarmed officers perceive themselves to be safer without guns.120 And they may well be right — armed police raise the stakes for law enforcement encounters, both incentivizing members of criminal organizations to carry guns and raising the tension for everyone involved, including law-abiding gun owners.121 Reducing tension during police encounters makes both police and the public safer.122 [...] Therefore this is what the Lord says: "I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them."