Quote:So if that psycho had a fully automatic weapon and was shooting up the school, the people trying to defend it are at a sever disadvantage.  Lets hope that nobody makes any pipe bombs and just starts tossing them all over the place, or directly at any sort of police resistance coming at the kid.  A sniper/more powerful rifle would do the trick....but no, thats "militarizing" a police force.

 

This isn't the 1970's anymore.  People do stupid stuff and police need to be prepared to protect them.

 

Teachers can have guns, cops can be equipped to a degree you seem necessary.  Your cant even have a discussion with you on this because you are so far extreme on one end, nobody can come close to being rational with you.

 

I've never argued to disarm the police, you seem to believe the police can't respond to extremely rare and in some cases events that have never happened without military grade gear. No one's ever launched random pipe bombs and if you knew anything about pipe bomb's you'd know why.

 

Secondly police have used snipers long before they where militarized, once again you're trying to discredit an argument by misrepresenting it.

 

We can come up with all kinds of hypothetical threats to society to justify anything, that's a rabbit hole. All these mass shootings you claim as justification for a militarized police force always have one thing in common, they happen in gun free zones in states with heavy legislation against individuals obtaining CWL's. Once again government being armed isn't going to save you, only individuals taking responsibility and being allowed to defend themselves will end the mass shootings.

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