Debate about Gun Control

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(10-21-2017, 02:22 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(10-21-2017, 08:53 AM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-20-2017, 12:10 PM)noway2 Wrote: I realized the other day that the same group that cries and wails and is all up in arms about discrimination and unfair treatment by police is the same one that thinks only the police should be armed.  SMH.

I'm not big on guns for the police either, but reality says that's a must.  On the other hand, the police are now on hair-trigger alert, because they never know when a gun will pop out and become a risk.  That they tend to fear 'others' is a downside of human nature, and the cause of so many reflexive shootings of blacks and Latinos.  I don't excuse it, but adding more guns to the mix makes only makes things worse.

I don't think cops have time to take into account the importance/ value of ones skin color, ethnic back ground like liberals seem to before pulling a trigger of a gun and shooting a person who they've deemed as being a direct threat to them, their lives or the public's in general at the time of the shooting.

Pull a gun on a cop... and die. Now that the cops have bullet-proof armor, the crook might get one non-lethal shot at the cop's chest before the cop can shoot the crook in the chest. Without bullet-proof armor, a shot to the chest cavity is usually fatal, and quickly so. In case you are wondering whether the crook might kill a cop by pointing to the cop's head or neck, then the time necessary for aiming such a shot gives the cop the time in which to fire a shot into the crook's chest cavity.

This may explain why there are fewer death penalty cases and convictions: many had been for crooks who killed cops, and now it is the cop who delivers the lethal shot to a crook. Killing a cop practically takes an ambush. It is now unlikely at a traffic stop.

I think that it is the gun that tips off the police officer that someone is dangerous, whatever the skin color. Say what you want about Black Lives Matter, but Black Lives Matters isn't often defending offenders who had firearms on their persons, let alone took aim at a cop and died for that mistake.