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Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

Cichlid the Loach posted:



By the way, I just love the new levels of passive voice achieved in "at which point an officer involved shooting occurred."


These threads have actually done a rare thing, and changed my opinion drastically. As much as I'm a fan of the right to keep and bear arms, I no longer think American police officers should be allowed to routinely go armed. They are clearly, as a profession, incapable of responsibly exercising the necessary self-control required to go about bearing a deadly weapon.

Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Mar 3, 2015

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Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

Pohl posted:

Guy that you just shot is laying on the ground and dying, what do you do?
Offer aid and comfort?

Answer :

Anything you can to make the after-action report look justified.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

demonicon posted:

This doesn't change at all the fact that the number of guns in the US is a big factor in why the US has the police force it has right now. I know that this doesn't help in any way but in an alternate dimension were the second amendment didn't exist, the US statistics would probably be much closer to those of other developed nations.

Again the threat doesn't have to be real to have a big effect.

Saying this over and over does not make it true.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

Edit : Posting works better if you refresh the page.

Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 07:24 on Apr 14, 2015

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

Yeah, I asked the copgoons about that the other day, and was saddened at the response. There just isn't will nor budget for the kind of training that a lot of us want people empowered as agents of the government with a license to kill to have.

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