(September 17, 2020 at 1:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(September 17, 2020 at 1:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: If one is going to rightfully say they want police safe, and all want that, how does it make sense that police are trained, even on a simple traffic stop to assume the motorist is armed?
If one is going to RIGHTFULLY argue that police should not be armed or trained like the soldiers invading the beaches of Normandy, then why do we under fund them, and on top of that, train them to shoot first, which is what we do?
I am fucking sick of this attitude that more guns makes society safer. Fear certainly sells more firearms, to BOTH society and police. What it does not do is reduce firearm violence.
If one is going to argue that the want both society safe and police safe, then to me, the issue is always weapons, on both sides.
Policing in the US is already a safe job.
No one us arguing that police should be trained and armed to carry out an amphibious assault on French beaches.
Police are not underfunded. They are improperly funded (meaning they get plenty of money, they’re just spending it wrong).
The issue isn’t weapons.
Boru
Which is why we have the most firearm deaths, inside and outside police interaction among first world nations.
Yes the issue IS volume of weapons.
