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willravel,

I raised my eyebrows when debaser listed all the stuff he'd been on the receiving end, but as I read the rest of the post it looks to me like he is in law enforcement. If you believe that, it's true that he would have been subjected to all those non-lethal tactics.

I wasn't sure if you picked up on that, or if you simply don't believe he's in law enforcement, so I wanted to toss that out there.


I really don't understand the basis of your argument, mirevolver, but I think you should stop making it. I didn't take the time to suss out what you were trying to justify with your statistical "analysis" but I don't know of a single criminologist, who do such things for a living, who would argue that the US has disproportionate levels of violent crime compared to other western nations. In fact, it's one of the single most glaring issues we face in explaining.

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