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Since I oppose this campaign and am in favor of various civilian gun control measures I thought I should ask you to clarify. Do you mean to suggest that America
by gajomi 12y ago
Since I oppose this campaign and am in favor of various civilian gun control measures I thought I should ask you to clarify. Do you mean to suggest that Americans should carry guns so that they can fight back against the police when they get out of hand?
- LyndsySimon 12y agoI believe he's saying that if you're in favor of disarming citizens as a means to reduce violence, then you should also be in favor of disarming police - or at least in favor of drastically changing the role armed police play in American law enforcement.
- baddox 12y ago> Do you mean to suggest that Americans should carry guns so that they can fight back against the police when they get out of hand? Maybe not carry, but own. And they point isn't to actually fight back against police, it's to deter the police from causing that to be necessary.
- gajomi 12y agoI see. I hope you would forgive me for assuming something so extreme. I would be curious to see some statistics on quantifying of police aggression (however quantified) versus civilian armament as covariates wrt total gun violence. One of the marginals of such a distribution are documented here: http://mark.reid.name/blog/gun-deaths-vs-gun-ownership.html http://mark.reid.name/blog/gun-deaths-vs-gun-ownership.html but this doesn't say anything about the police side of the story.