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Do the cops not need guns to put you behind bars?
by brap 3y ago
Do the cops not need guns to put you behind bars?
- thriftwy 3y agoUsually not. They might have them, especially in trigger-happy locales, but they don't use them. You're not usually dragged behind bars at the gunpoint. You're going behind bars voluntarily because the alternative is being dragged behind bars for longer and that's all.
- brap 3y agoI would be very curious to see how a police force which has no credible threat of violence can operate. "You're going to jail" - "No" "Now you're going to jail for even longer!" - "Make me" Even more amusing when the citizens have guns but the "police force" does not.
- jjgreen 3y agoStop! Or I will shout "Stop!" again
- lambertsimnel 3y agoIn the UK, the police seem to have little trouble being violent without guns. I think it's the threat of that kind of violence that they use to e.g. jail people. Some police officers do have guns, but they're a minority (and many of them in London refused to wield guns this week, in protest about a murder charge for a firearms officer who killed an unarmed man). As far as I can tell, non-police violence here also mostly doesn't involve guns. Knife crime seems to be more widespread.
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- thriftwy 3y agoThey come to your house with a prison sentence and five strong, unarmed men and walk you away politely? What would you do against the state?
- brap 3y agoAnd what will these fine gentlemen do when I take out my gun and kindly refuse their offer? Better yet, what will the state do when the neighboring country, armed with F35s, decides it’s time to take their land?
- thriftwy 3y agoIn this case you will indeed get a visit of militarized police or state army, and you have good chances being crippled or dead in the process and you know it. The point being, 99% of arrests will not involve guns at all. State has guns, absolutely, it just does not need these guns on day-to-day basis. Needing guns is an emergency.