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It's pretty clear how a heavily armed citizenry would disincentivize cops from this sort of thing. It's because the cops would be afraid that if they rob someon
by baddox 11y ago
It's pretty clear how a heavily armed citizenry would disincentivize cops from this sort of thing. It's because the cops would be afraid that if they rob someone they will be met with a violent response, as they well should.
As for leading to anarchy (let's save discussing whether that would be a good thing for another time) or civil war, I don't see why it would.
- dragonwriter 11y agoNo, its pretty clear that a heavily-armed citizenry would not disincentivize this, since the portion of the citizenry targetted by the powers at issue is alreadY heavily armed compared to the citizenry at large. > It's because the cops would be afraid that if they rob someone they will be met with a violent response, as they well should. The cops already are afraid that if they exercise seizure or arrest powers they will be met with a violent response, and conduct such operations based on the assumption of a violent response (often with tragic results.) This manifestly does not prevent them from executing these powers.