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merrily

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6. I have made my share criticisms of cops.

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 01:39 PM

Apr 2014

On the other hand, a good number of them in everyone's city or town leave for work every day not knowing if they will return home that night to their loves and their children. Whether their families will pay the rent next month with their paychecks or with survivors' benefits.

We can say accurately that no one really knows if they will return home from work or (ugh) school that day, but it is not a danger of which others are conscious of every day.

That has to generate a lot of desperation fr whatever control they can manage, as well as a lot of PTSD and, yes, a lot of us versus them and thin blue lines into which an opening cannot be wedged from the outside.

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Weaponized Cops and the Future of Freedom [View all] WilliamPitt Apr 2014 OP

My SIL is Marine (not active, but there and no ex- Marines) flamin lib Apr 2014 #1

I wish all of America could have seen what was going in the streets of merrily Apr 2014 #5

Up WilliamPitt Apr 2014 #2

Take away assault rifles and fighting vehicles won't be necessary Auggie Apr 2014 #3

Not really. Lizzie Poppet Apr 2014 #4

I have made my share criticisms of cops. merrily Apr 2014 #6

Good points. Lizzie Poppet Apr 2014 #9

Thanks. Yours as well. merrily Apr 2014 #12

Dupe. Duh. Deleted. merrily Apr 2014 #13

Question, and it's probably a silly one. Savannahmann Apr 2014 #14

Good questions, all, but I have no clue. merrily Apr 2014 #15

Part of it is the image of "manly" or Macho. Savannahmann Apr 2014 #19

You have obviously put a lot of studying into this and also merrily Apr 2014 #20

Haven't hunting rifles been around for years? Auggie Apr 2014 #7

Yep. Lizzie Poppet Apr 2014 #8

Let's not Brown Coat Apr 2014 #10

The fighting vehicles are needed to quell the revolt when it comes. The oligarchs rhett o rick Apr 2014 #17

The cops in my neck-o-the-woods bullsnarfle Apr 2014 #11

Does anyone know of historical statistics for police brutality? WatermelonRat Apr 2014 #16

I agree that it's probably an increase in awareness. JoeyT Apr 2014 #18