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Showing Original Post only (View all)The Rude Pundit Is Right: "The NRA has caused more cop shootings than a nonstop parade of protests" [View all]
What's gonna protect cops more? Locking up peaceful protesters? Or reducing the number of and access to guns?For just one second, put yourself in an American cop's shoes. There are over 300 million firearms out there. When you see someone you want to arrest, you just assume that person has a gun. If you're an inexperience, poorly-trained, or just shitty cop, you're gonna mistake anything for a gun because you're expecting a gun. When someone reaches for a pocket, you expect a gun. Because that's America in the 21st century. This ain't to excuse cops who fuck up, but you can fuckin' well bet that cops in England don't automatically assume someone has a gun because it's England. Chances are that they don't. It's a different way of existing, being actually shocked by guns.
The NRA has caused more cop shootings than a nonstop parade of protests.
Conservatives don't actually give a fuck about cops as people, despite their moaning over the deaths of Officers Liu and Ramos. What they like is the authority and control the cops represent, the police force as a means of oppressing dissent (and, let's be honest, a lot of cops get off on the authority and control, too). If the right-wing did give a fuck, police would make a shit-ton more money, paid for by tax hikes, like Democratic Mayor Mitch Landrieu is attempting in New Orleans.
And maybe they'd not cut the pensions and benefits of retired cops like fake tough guy Chris Christie, who seeks to balance New Jersey's budget on the backs of the police and firefighters. In October, a retired police officer called into a radio show to talk to Christie. After brushing off the cop's attempt to criticize him, Christie jowled, "You're a guy that retired at 58 years old, with a full pension and free medical benefits for life, and you're coming on the air to complain...Pay your fair share." If President Obama said that, Fox "news" would cause riots.
What is hurting cops more? Mayor de Blasio saying that asshole cops should stop being assholes? Or Gov. Christie telling cops that their pensions might not be there in full when they retire?
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The Rude Pundit Is Right: "The NRA has caused more cop shootings than a nonstop parade of protests" [View all]
kpete
Dec 2014
OP
Why did you carry? What was your rational before you stopped carrying a firearm?
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#5
I truly do feel bad for those folks that think they need protection of a firearm in their own home.
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#4
Right, because poor deflective sarcasm based on ridiculous allegories defending the NRA is what we do
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#8
Post all you like, not that I can do anything about it. But do not say the NRA belongs anywhere near
Fred Sanders
Dec 2014
#13
Plainly visible: an NRA death machine leads to yet another citizen being killed by the police --
Nuclear Unicorn
Dec 2014
#23