Gun Control

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

You used to kill people for less than nine dollars a day?? My god - this is completely new information!

Boru

It's kind of an advisory memo.  

Really? It comes off more as repetitive self-aggrandizement.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's kind of an advisory memo.  

Really? It comes off more as repetitive self-aggrandizement.

Boru

It was a major factor in my life for a fair few years. I promise not to hurt anyone here.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Really? It comes off more as repetitive self-aggrandizement.

Boru

It was a major factor in my life for a fair few years. I promise not to hurt anyone here.

I wasn’t worried.

Boru

[Thumpalumpacus]

It's kind of an advisory memo.  

Really? It comes off more as repetitive self-aggrandizement.

Boru

He's six hundred forty-one years old, of course he's going to repeat war stories ad nauseum. It's what old fucks do.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It was a major factor in my life for a fair few years. I promise not to hurt anyone here.

I wasn’t worried.

Boru

You should be. I know where I live.

[The Architect Of Fate]

  

   In fact I see it as a kind of miracle that US police forces are still able to operate and still be very efficient in their duty in a country in which gangs have access to weapons of active combat in a completely legal manner 

The vast majority of shootings are not gang related.  Don't worry about The Cops, though.  

Those pictures make me think of this quote 

Quotes. Commander William Adama : There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.

[Foxaèr]

I would kill people for free so long as I was guaranteed immunity from the law.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I would kill people for free so long as I was guaranteed immunity from the law.

There's a recruiting station near you. In Somalia they tend to be in bars.

[The Grand Nudger]

That offer has more traction with cops than with soldiers. That's the (or a) problem. Cops have qualified immunity, active duty soldiers do not. They don't even have the courtesy of the presumption of innocence....and we're not allowed to do shit cops do or escalate situations cops escalate in the first place.

Cops don't need this shit because americans are well armed - they are notoriously passive in the face of Well Armed™ americans - when there's even a difference between them and the cops. That's just part of their mob boss pitch whenever people get uppity about the quality of their enforcement.

The cynic in me says that the aversion to gun control - in the well armed and cop population (again, when those terms aren't redundant) probably has at least something to do with maintaining this pitch. If we all gave up our shotguns, would they give up their ifvs?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Cops: If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Public: Any chance of giving up your qualified immunity?

Cops: How are we supposed to do our job without it?

Public: If you’ve done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear.

Cops:

Boru