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The cops shoot us because we have so many guns, but you can't take away guns, because the cops will shot us.
by inscionent 7y ago
The cops shoot us because we have so many guns, but you can't take away guns, because the cops will shot us.
- jacobush 7y agoActually it may be true. I don't know what to advocate to fix the US. Years ago I thought I did, now, not sure actually.
- moate 7y agoCan you point to any instances in which having a gun prevented someone from being killed by the police? It seems like part of the problem is that there's an arms race. The cops need SWAT teams because citizens have Uzis, etc. Then the criminals get even more Uzis because now the cops regularly have them. On and on.
- jacobush 7y agoIt seems like for a brief period, when the Black Panthers in California started carrying rifles in public, the police relented in their attacks for a while. Of course, gun laws were then swiftly made stricter to make up for it. Also: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/texas-no-knock-warrant-drugs.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/03/18/us/texas-no-k... Impossible to know if it saved the person doing the shooting, or his girlfriend. Maybe. Given how incompetent everything else was done, it's not hard to imagine. About the arms race, I agree. It's very unfortunate.