Gun Control

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Originally Posted by Accuser

So we train more sheepdogs, right?
Though I should point out, the vast majority (-vast- majority) of police officers have never been shot at. Most haven't had a weapon pointed at them. There is really no training that police officers get that a civilian could not. And some civilians do choose to get that training, as best as it can be obtained.

No, we don't. We don't put poeple in a situation were they're getting shot at by someone with the intention of killing. Not unless that is the prefession they choose. That is a possibilty when you choose to become a police officer, and that is why they get training and preparation for it. But there's no telling even then how they will react, like you said. Nor is there any certainty how a soldier will react the first time those bullets come whistling.

But if there's no telling how poeple who are aware the possibilty and are trained and prepared for it will react, how the fuck can you sit there and say that; "if only someone in that theatre had a gun... he/she would have stopped him". Get the fuck real, okay?

And even if someone had drawn a piece, stood up and fiered back... he would just have put the poeple in there in more danger. There's a reason the police doesn't take chances when there's civilians involved. And there's a reason civilians get up and get the fuck out of there own village in Afghanistan when there's a patrol coming. Two guns firing is double the danger from only one in almost any scenario.