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>Do you have any examples where an interaction between a citizen and a cop is made better by the presence of a gun on the citizen? Better thought: Do you think
by icelancer 11y ago
>Do you have any examples where an interaction between a citizen and a cop is made better by the presence of a gun on the citizen?
Better thought: Do you think a completely unarmed populace is a better idea given how bad police abuse their power?
- DanBC 11y ago>Better thought: Do you think a completely unarmed populace is a better idea given how bad police abuse their power? Well, yes, I do. The US is heavily armed. The US has a lot of poorly trained, unskilled, abusive police officers. Gun ownership hasn't made US police any better. If anything it's made them far more lethal - one reason given (by both pro- and anti- gun advocates) for the shocking numbers of people shot and killed by US police each year is the presence of guns in the population. When a police officer abuses their power I can grind through it, or I can pull a gun and get shot. In most cases getting shot is the worse outcome.