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I don't know how we got here, but you must admit that SWAT teams in mine-resistant personnel carriers sure look spiffy. If your police force isn't ready for bat

I don't know how we got here, but you must admit that SWAT teams in mine-resistant personnel carriers sure look spiffy. If your police force isn't ready for battle, the terrorists win

xroche 13y ago
You’re More Likely to be Killed by a Toddler than a Terrorist. (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/youre-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-toddler-than-a-terrorist.html http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/youre-more-likely-to-...)
- digitalengineer 13y ago
  From the article: "–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist"... Wow, so we need a war against... The police? If we follow todays logic?
  - glogla 13y ago
    Maybe they can use their military-grade hardware and shoot themselves.
  - JonSkeptic 13y ago
    You misunderstand his point: what we really need is a war on toddlers.
    - daraul 13y ago
      Toddlers are assholes anyways. I really support this endeavor.
    - angersock 13y ago
      Enough babying them--it is time to stop letting their infantile behavior and juvenile antics hurt our civilization. We can't continue to let minor offenses slide.
    - schrodingersCat 13y ago
      If the military hardware fails, we can always eat them ala modest proposal
  - vijayr 13y ago
    at this rate, we'll soon have something like "war of the day". Seems like the media likes us to be at "war" with something, all the time.
- kens 13y ago
  I was wondering how toddlers kill people, so I went to the original source, which describes 5 fatal shootings. All but one were by preschoolers, not toddlers, which ruins the alliteration. And the article cherry-picks data from 2013; terrorism deaths are considerably higher if you include other years (even excluding 2001). I'd classify this as a catchy link title, not an accurate statement.
digitalengineer 13y ago
What terrorists? Did you read the article? "Today, the use of this sort of force is in too many jurisdictions the first option for serving search warrants instead of the last. SWAT teams today are used to break up poker games and massage parlors, for immigration enforcement, even to perform regulatory inspections."
- SkyMarshal 13y ago
  Sarcasm.
  - rfnslyr 13y ago
    In ASCII. Totally works.
    - angersock 13y ago
      It's a new header type in the HTTP/2.0 spec.
      - schrodingersCat 13y ago
        And people say the standard isn't interesting
        angersock 13y ago
        See! You used it right there, and my browser didn't even display it--must be conforming.

I don't know how we got here, but you must admit that SWAT teams in mine-resistant personnel carriers sure look spiffy. If your police force isn't ready for battle, the terrorists win

xroche 13y ago

You’re More Likely to be Killed by a Toddler than a Terrorist. (http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/youre-more-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-toddler-than-a-terrorist.html http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/youre-more-likely-to-...)

digitalengineer 13y ago
From the article: "–You are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist"... Wow, so we need a war against... The police? If we follow todays logic?
- glogla 13y ago
  Maybe they can use their military-grade hardware and shoot themselves.
- JonSkeptic 13y ago
  You misunderstand his point: what we really need is a war on toddlers.
  - daraul 13y ago
    Toddlers are assholes anyways. I really support this endeavor.
  - angersock 13y ago
    Enough babying them--it is time to stop letting their infantile behavior and juvenile antics hurt our civilization. We can't continue to let minor offenses slide.
  - schrodingersCat 13y ago
    If the military hardware fails, we can always eat them ala modest proposal
- vijayr 13y ago
  at this rate, we'll soon have something like "war of the day". Seems like the media likes us to be at "war" with something, all the time.
kens 13y ago
I was wondering how toddlers kill people, so I went to the original source, which describes 5 fatal shootings. All but one were by preschoolers, not toddlers, which ruins the alliteration. And the article cherry-picks data from 2013; terrorism deaths are considerably higher if you include other years (even excluding 2001). I'd classify this as a catchy link title, not an accurate statement.

digitalengineer 13y ago

What terrorists? Did you read the article? "Today, the use of this sort of force is in too many jurisdictions the first option for serving search warrants instead of the last. SWAT teams today are used to break up poker games and massage parlors, for immigration enforcement, even to perform regulatory inspections."

SkyMarshal 13y ago
Sarcasm.
- rfnslyr 13y ago
  In ASCII. Totally works.
  - angersock 13y ago
    It's a new header type in the HTTP/2.0 spec.
    - schrodingersCat 13y ago
      And people say the standard isn't interesting
      - angersock 13y ago
        See! You used it right there, and my browser didn't even display it--must be conforming.