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Are you saying the general public should be juicing so we can survive police attacks?
Time to get anabolic steroids to the college campuses, stat.
Let's just put it in the water supply. It will make doomsday scenarios more interesting
lmfao that's what I heard
The general public don't usually carry firearms. Police do. Losing a wrestling match comes with the potential threat of your own gun being taken and used against you. That means losing said wrestling match could mean death. This is why people who conceal carry are the most likely to stay the fuck away from trouble like this. Police don't have that luxury.
They actually do have the luxury of standing back. Ask the officers at Uvalde. Ask the Supreme Court.
De-escalation could also help. But, no, let's arm these undertrained, ignorant, and stupid...
So your saying cops shouldn't carry guns?
No, and I can't possibly imagine what in my message made you think that. I'm more than happy to live in a country where the only people carrying guns are cops.
That's a weird statement. If the police were the only people carrying guns, why would the police need them?
It's also the real situation in most of the world there bud. And in the UK, they don't carry them.
I'm not sure why you're saying that to me, or better yet what you think I mean? I'm questioning why in the commenters ideal situation only cops would have guns as opposed to nobody.
Because there's always going to be the occasional criminal that has managed to obtain one too and even if not they may have bladed or blunt melee weapons and tazers and pepper spray are not 100% reliable against them. Also if you're confronted by a group of thugs you want to be the only one with a gun.
So are cops just really weak people who are scared of everything?
What's that got to do with anything I said?
You said they need to juice to wrestle and need guns because they are scared of being surrounded by tough big guys with sharp things. So weak and scared of everything
I don't remember ever before encountering anyone else so massively dishonestly misrepresenting my words that you have done here in this discussion. You probably couldn't steelman my position even if your life dependent on it. There's no point in arguing with someone like you.
OK so you are weak and afraid to defend your positions. Probably a cop
Because you said cops wrestling people could lose their guns and get killed so if cops "have" to wrestle people they probably shouldn't carry guns because then they can't lose them while attacking people
Not carrying a gun comes with it's own set of even greater issues.