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Yeah, this sort of alarmist bullshit isn't true at all. The Clintons never went after handguns, that I am aware. Bills assualt weapons ban from the 90s had nothing to do with handguns.
I mean, if you are going to go after guns, it would make sense, in my opinion, to go after handguns, becuase they are easier to conceal and are probably involved on more crimes than long guns.
There's a huge group of people that honestly believe the government is going to confiscate guns. And that's ridiculous. There might be buy backs and waiting periods and stuff, but no one is going to show up and confiscate your guns.
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I'm weighing the lives of unarmed civilians versus armed and irresponsible officers
I know exactly what I'm saying
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Fuck Mike Pence. It's going to be awesome watching him get wrecked in the debate.
sure
but I think it probably pissed off most of its writers and performers as much as it did the rest of us, so
Saying an oppressive voluntary organization that's proven itself untrustworthy is less important than the people they unjustly kill is not something I'm ashamed of. You basically made a Blue Lives Matter post.
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Dude pulls a gun on you? Sorry shit out of luck
Thank you for this storied wisdom. I will be sure to take it into account.
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That's a deep cut Justified (tv show) reference. Great show if you haven't seen it.
The guy hasn't gone through the normal channels to request a pardon, and his case at this point shouldn't be pardoned by Pence. He needs to prove that he's gone through all the standard channels of getting the pardon first, which he hasn't done. It's just really easy to shit on Pence and go "He's not pardoning this innocent guy!" but this one is just another example of trying to drive outrage.
That's got to cost what, tens of thousands of dollars though?
Not pardoning an innocent guy sounds like an asshole thing to do, tbh
I mean, if the "dude" is wearing a uni, you already are...
It is 100% the opposite. The police are arming up, going into these situations, and gunning people down.
That needs to change.
It needs to stop.
I don't think police officers should have the same right to self defense as an average citizen.
Because an average citizen doesn't have any right to self defense against a cop.
I mean, if Pence was a smarter politician, maybe he pardons the guy and uses it as political ammo to help him and Trump. But his "go through the normal channels, I won't do the pardon out of respect for the judicial process" statement is actually him following the processes he's supposed to.
I don't think that addresses the "costs tens of thousands of dollars issue". Also what's the reason? I'm genuinely curious.
Even ignoring the reality of what's happening right now, I must confess that it has never struck me as crazy or callous to say that all things being equal, the tragic death of a police officer--who made an active choice to accept certain risks in the name of defending the public good--ought to be at least slightly preferable over the death of a random passer-by, who made no such choice. And yet the opposite is considered true. Unjustified killings on the street is an acceptable cost of protecting police officers, but even a marginal increase in the probability of a police officer dying is almost never seen as an acceptable cost for the safety of the public. Why even have police officers, then?
Because police fucking volunteer to be police. They literally have to sign up.
Same with firefighters, military, and the like. Certain jobs have a baked in risk of life and limb. You sign up for that job understanding that risk, and willing to make that sacrifice.
I personally think Pence is a huge asshole, and it would look better for him to basically everyone on the planet if he just pardoned the guy, but I was just pointing out that it's not as simple as some people, especially the ones on reddit who just read the buzzfeed headling(not even the article) were making it out to be.
This is also terrible. Civil servants who volunteer to do extremely dangerous things should not be told that they should expect to be killed because of their chosen profession, which in an ideal world is noble and good.
Painting with broad brushes is easy, it's how you say that all black people are criminals and all gay people have aids and all transgender people have a mental disorder. Organized law enforcement has serious systemic problems but saying that police officers' lives are less valuable than other people, especially when The Police are an unquestionable net positive for society, is ignorant and inhuman.
They're not less valuable.
They're more expendable.
Because they volunteer to be.
Saying cops do not deserve to be killed is not, at all, equivalent to Blue Lives Matter white supremacy laden bullshit
"These people are not worthless because of their profession" is not a hateful statement
*That's a huge if though, one that actually does need to be fixed.
goddamn, shut the fuck up.
July was barely three fucking months ago and you had cops getting randomly shot in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Tennessee, and Missouri, and probably more because that was a cursory fucking Google
Like, once again, I realize this place has the folks with their absolute extreme shit cunt opinions, but nobody deserves to die in the course of doing their job. Yes, their jobs could be done so much better, but we aren't there yet.