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Can 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 ar

by moate 7y ago

Can 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 ago
It 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.