Quote:I'd say even more than 15% of people in the real world are jerks.  Life is life - you have to deal with jerks.  If your boss is a jerk, then tough.  If you run into a jerk at McDonalds, tough.  If you run into a jerk cop who is writing you a speeding ticket when you were only going 3 over the speed limit, tough.

 

Cops have the right to stay one level of defense higher than what they are presented.  A fight with a cop is never an even fight, which seems to be what the anti-militarization crowd wants.  Guess what?  If an angry mob that can overtake and injure/kill a group of 50 officers is confrontational, you're darn right the cops should have riot gear, automatic weapons, and tear gas.

 

It seems pretty self-righteous to demand that police officers put themselves at even more risk of not going home to their families at night so you can feel better about someone getting into a fair fight with the police. 

 

saying de-militirize sounds much more alarming than saying preparing for worse case scenarios.

 

Some of the stuff that is happening in MO is tame compared to what could happen.  Many countries going through turmoil right now wish they had the equipment our police had.  Unfortunately, they've lost control of their country because of it.

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