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Hold on so if someone is intending to kill themselves with a gun, so cops that come have guns, the only reason a person has a gun suddenly becomes to defend the
by ctoth 5y ago
Hold on so if someone is intending to kill themselves with a gun, so cops that come have guns, the only reason a person has a gun suddenly becomes to defend themselves from the police? What happened to the original gun? Am I just parsing this wrong?
- relaxing 5y agoThe original gun probably wasn’t going to be fired at all. A trained responder could talk then down. But throw in a hostile force and you’ve increased the likelihood of a shootout. Also it may not even have been a gun. The police will also treat a knife or a motor vehicle as a deadly weapon and respond with lethal force.
- kmonsen 5y agoI don't think so, if there is a gun the police is coming with guns. That is true even in Norway. Once you start waving around a gun or something that looks like a gun with some threats as well you will be taken seriously. With one very possible consequence that you will be shot. Defund the police is not solving this situation. It could solve a lot of situations more calmly but not this one.