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Originally Posted by dc_dux
dk....its that time again, huh?
Every 2-3 months you post an article about one isolated incident in which one police officer may not have performed at the level one might expect. And from that, you conclude that our entire public safety system is failing to protect us and we need to arm ourselves.
IMO, its an insult to the intelligence of any reasonable person and most of all, an insult to the tens of thousands of police officers around the country who risk their lives every day to protect the public.
National Crime Prevention Month is just around the corner (October)...so if you want to do something productive, get off the soap box and get involved in a constructive way in your community. |
It's an insult to the intelligence of all reasonable persons that after numerous occurrences of police brutality, over agressive use of force, and the plain outright murder of innocent civilians, that you still consider them 'isolated' incidences.
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
That's complete horseshit.
Violence or the threat of violence is the root of force.
Power is the ability to produce results without force.
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all power comes from the barrel of a gun.
the ability to produce results without force is called 'persuasion', and while it is powerful, it's not ultimately powerful.
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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
Your points are neither nice nor neat. I really have little idea what you are talking about. This is because you haven't explained yourself, and you haven't put forth any real argument, mainly just weak (i.e. thinly veiled) rhetorical questions.
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translation: you refuse to acknowledge the truth and validity of my statements of fact and will therefore attempt to discredit them by calling them neither nice nor neat.