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Ironically, doesn't this partially disprove one of the major complaints against the abolish police movement that we need police to solve crimes? Preventing and
by slg 6y ago
Ironically, doesn't this partially disprove one of the major complaints against the abolish police movement that we need police to solve crimes? Preventing and solving crime usually doesn't require a gun. It may be time to specialize and have less generic police and more non-violent investigators, social workers, mental health experts, crisis workers, etc.
- Gibbon1 6y agoI think most countries most cops don't carry guns. Even in the US most security guards don't. My preference would be ban handguns and have far less armed police. And much higher vetting for cops that do carry.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago> My preference would be ban handguns We can’t even get assault rifles banned, good luck banning hand guns.
- jeffdavis 6y agoAll rifles combined -- including "assault rifles" -- are involved in fewer murders than knives. Also involved in fewer murders than hands/fists. This is true even in states where laws for obtaining them are very lax: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-20 https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
- Gibbon1 6y agoThat's my point. For all the demonization of rifles and assault rifles, handguns are the bulk of the problem.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoBut I think handguns would be even harder politically to ban.
- Gibbon1 6y agoBig problem is the Supreme Court said states can't ban handguns. Which is sort of insane because they allow states to ban 'assault weapons' and sawed off shotguns.
- google234123 6y agoThe US isn't most countries, there are 300+ million guns and the cops have to do 10 million arrests a year. They have to be armed for their own safety.