10-22-2017, 10:32 AM
(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.
Have you actually seen the video of any of these shootings? In one, a cop approaches a car at a traffic stop, pulls his weapon then shoots ... about 10 seconds later. There were no signs of aggression, but the guy did have a fully legal handgun in the car, and possessed a concealed-carry permit. There was plenty of time to think things through, but it didn't happen. I doubt the cop wanted to shoot the guy. He was being filmed by his own dash-cam.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.