Quote:Are we discussing how cops should be armed?

After viewing the antics of the " upset people over justice" by shooting at cops, throwing urine on them, looting and destroying innocent businesses.... Give them bazookas for all I care. Flame throwers. These critters only know force.

Sitting down and a having rational dialogue with hoodlums that have no respect for justice but through mob rule, excuse agendas and a few free cartons of smokes and bottles of gin isn't going to happen.

Playing peace keeper here or in this screwed up world has proved to be fruitless.

 

This is where I disagree with republicans. Please Ringo don't take this as all directed at you, but your post illustrates a problem.

 

The right is ok with a militarized police force because right now TODAY it's being used to counter what conservatives view as an out of control black population in urban areas. No one's denying this group in Ferguson is out of control, but when you have a city in a war like zone it becomes a problem for the national guard not the local police. Giving the local police military weapons and gear to beat the public into submission is only going to further divide them.

 

Now shift your focus back to the big picture, it's all dandy when the police go into the ghettos. What about when they come marching down rural America? What about when one day they get enough people in congress to decide Mr and Mrs. America turn them all in, no more rifles for you America those belong in the hands of soldiers and police only they'll say. Will you still be happy the police coming to take your guns have been militarized?

 

I refuse to believe an entire sector of the American population is beyond reasoning with, I refuse. I've lived in all kinds of area's during my adult life. From the outskirts of Jacksonville in St. Augustine, to the North Side on Lem Turner, to the Suburbs of Palm Coast, to the Rural Farm Lands of Putnam County, never have I meet any one group that is beyond reason. You know what I've found, people are frustrated, frustrated that they don't have a voice. That voice has been stolen by government and like it or not, regardless if the local guy you know is one heck of a dude, the police are the enforcement of that government.

 

So no sir, I don't endorse nor support militarizing the group of people that will one day inevitable march down my dirt road seeking to take what the government has deemed I'm no longer entitled to own.

 

Liberty or death, even when I disagree with the practice.

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