I'm full of it, huh? Tell you what, little buddy, you have no idea at all what I am or what I would do. Police departments do not come out in favor of citizens' right to bear arms because for the most part, they are not allowed to. Even though the majority of rank and file officers are, in my opinion, pro-gun, they are restricted in what they can say publicly. The administrators who would have to authorize such a proclamation have to answer to the politicians that YOU elect, and they are generally forbidden to do so. Officers have been sanctioned internally for being pro-gun on duty, and sometimes even off duty. Like it or not, cops just don't have the same 1st amendment rights you do. Almost every department has the amorphous 'conduct unbecoming an officer' or 'bringing discredit upon the agency' clause in their code of conduct that can be and sometimes is used against officers who get involved in politics.
And maybe your post wasn't meant to be 'a little bit of LEO bashing', but that's how it came across. If we generalized about non-LEO gun owners the way you do about LEO's, you'd be all over us in righteous indignation. Remember, we don't make these crappy gun laws or any other laws, for that matter. In many states, the legislatures don't particularly care what the line cops think, and we just don't have that much influence over what they do. And the anti's don't like us either- they just like to use our fallen members as an excuse for gun control laws.
Your last post just reinforces your first one- you don't have the nuts to 'make a stand' yourself, you want someone else to do it for you. You want the police to come out on your behalf? Convince your sheriff and chief of police, not us. They really don't give a crap what we have to say, we just work for them.
And BTW, there are police organizations that do publicly endorse EVERY citizen's right to keep and bear arms. The politicians and anti-gunners hate them.