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Bucky

(55,334 posts) Fri Jan 2, 2015, 03:35 PM Jan 2015

It should be pointed out that the rise of police being shot is a result of NRA paranoia mongering

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A well armed society, it turns out, isn't necessarily all that more polite. It's just gunnier.

And people are being killed who don't have to be killed.

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It should be pointed out that the rise of police being shot is a result of NRA paranoia mongering (Original Post) Bucky Jan 2015 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author aikoaiko Jan 2015 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jan 2015 #2

Whoops I misread aikoaiko Jan 2015 #4

It should be pointed out that the rise of police being shot is paranoia mongering sarisataka Jan 2015 #3

And of course you can show that more police are being shot now then in the past? nt hack89 Jan 2015 #5

300 million guns out there with the folks police must serve and protect. It is a Gunner Nation Fred Sanders Jan 2015 #6

I am sorry, LOCKING etherealtruth Jan 2015 #7

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aikoaiko

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4. Whoops I misread

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Fri Jan 2, 2015, 04:37 PM

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sarisataka

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3. It should be pointed out that the rise of police being shot is paranoia mongering

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Fri Jan 2, 2015, 04:31 PM

Jan 2015

Or at least selective reading of data
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/causes.html
http://www.nleomf.org/facts/research-bulletins/

2013 was an abnormality of a low number of police officer deaths

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hack89

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5. And of course you can show that more police are being shot now then in the past? nt

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Fred Sanders

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6. 300 million guns out there with the folks police must serve and protect. It is a Gunner Nation

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Fri Jan 2, 2015, 06:06 PM

Jan 2015

fuelled by NRA paranoia and a culture drenched in images of gun violence. What could go wrong?

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etherealtruth

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7. I am sorry, LOCKING

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Fri Jan 2, 2015, 06:39 PM

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