Debate about Gun Control

[Eric the Green]

(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.

And yet, beyond what you think, that's what happens. It's the young folks who are black who most likely get shot. And so what is in the mind of a policeman, may not be what (s)he may rationally think, but might be a fear or prejudice.

I'm not big on having shootouts between citizens and police. Neither are those who protest police misconduct. The police are armed in order to protect themselves as they directly protect law and order. But the fewer guns are out there, the closer we can be to having more police go without guns. I would like to see more police go without guns. But if the police are armed, the greater is the need for police to obey the law themselves, learn to be above prejudice and fear, and be subject to review and supervision by the public as well as the law.