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

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.