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OrwellwasRight

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15. But it is. It offers an excuse to any killer cop to say

Mon Dec 1, 2014, 01:17 PM

Dec 2014

I shot him because "I thought he had a gun," or "He was reaching for his (later to be found non-existent) gun," or in the case of a child killer, "It looked like a real gun."

If we didn't have so many guns in our society, chicken-shit cops could not use it as an excuse for their chicken-shittedness, and then perhaps we 'd find these fraidycats/bullies earlier and get them out of the police force before they kill people and give brave, honest cops a bad name.

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Why Doesn’t Ferguson Happen Abroad? [View all] kpete Dec 2014 OP

Good question … but it isn't really about guns Vox Moi Dec 2014 #1

But - you know that people are going to talk about guns right? el_bryanto Dec 2014 #6

But it is. It offers an excuse to any killer cop to say OrwellwasRight Dec 2014 #15

There are tons of countries with much, much higher murder rates than the US. Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #16

You can talk about Ferguson without talking about guns. Brickbat Dec 2014 #2

"Violence is as American as cherry pie." ~ H. Rap Brown - nt KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #3

Depends what neighborhood you are in. Maybe in HIS world. Not in mine. nt clarice Dec 2014 #10

Brown was being somewhat ironic\sardonic with his comment, since it KingCharlemagne Dec 2014 #13

Sorry Charlie, I guess I didn't notice the irony..... clarice Dec 2014 #14

Guns geomon666 Dec 2014 #4

A combination of reasons LordGlenconner Dec 2014 #5

Not only guns, but cops training. Mass Dec 2014 #7

It does. There have been massive outbreaks in Paris and London in recent years. Comrade Grumpy Dec 2014 #8

Death of Mark Duggan Downwinder Dec 2014 #11

And the 2005 French riots. NuclearDem Dec 2014 #17

American individualism Matrosov Dec 2014 #9

Lack of gunfu...um, gunlovers...abroad. Iggo Dec 2014 #12