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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
RB, if a guns only purpose is to kill, why do we arm our police forces with them? police officers are not authorized executioners, right? A police officers job is to maintain law and order, serve the public, and protect the community as a whole. What possible purpose would it serve then, to arm police officers with tools that are designed to do nothing but kill people?
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The police use superior (hopefully) firepower as a means of enforcing authority with the threat of physical, possibly mortal, violence. I'm thunderstruck that I have to spell this out. Are you actually denying that guns are meant to inflict injury up to and including death?
It was the first lesson I learned in gun safety: never aim a gun unless you intend to destroy what you're aiming at. To say a gun is for anything less than that is to turn it into a child's toy, and to ENCOURAGE the kind of incident that we're talking about here. And I know you're not FOR 11-year-olds committing cold-blooded murder, right?