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Graylight · 51-55, F
There were 1021 police shootings Nationwide in 2020, the police statistics are a tricky thing. Not every jurisdiction keeps records of specific events and specific events are defined all different kinds of ways to make numbers look better throughout us jurisdictions.
But it's too many people. Nowhere else in the civilized world of developing nations do so many citizens murder each other and nowhere in the western world is the incarceration rate so high as in the US.
Maybe we hang up the guns for a while and stop treating beat police like they're tactical militia.
But it's too many people. Nowhere else in the civilized world of developing nations do so many citizens murder each other and nowhere in the western world is the incarceration rate so high as in the US.
Maybe we hang up the guns for a while and stop treating beat police like they're tactical militia.
SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@Graylight If cops should hang up guns then make the criminals also.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@SatanBurger To be clear, I wasn't suggesting we take arms away from police forces. I'm implying that the police and the military were never meant to resemble one another.
As for "remove the guns and only the criminals will have guns," that's a lazy, old and debunked position.
As for "remove the guns and only the criminals will have guns," that's a lazy, old and debunked position.