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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Fri Jul 8, 2016, 06:11 AM Jul 2016

If only everybody at that protest had been armed, the cops would have been so much safer. [View all]

Guns make people safer because there is always a good-guy-with-a-gun around to shoot the bad-guy-with-a-gun.

In conclusion, the only way to make the streets safer, the only way to make sure that less cops are killed, the only way to make sure that cops are less nervous and less anxious about getting killed is putting more guns into the hands of more people.

Guns for everyone.

Just imagine how calm and professional cops will be once they know that every single person giving them a weird look is packing heat.

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If only everybody at that protest had been armed, the cops would have been so much safer. [View all] DetlefK Jul 2016 OP

I would live to hear the NRA response to this, the person who DID have an AR-15 turned in their uponit7771 Jul 2016 #1

Post removed Post removed Jul 2016 #2

I disagree with your comment. imanamerican63 Jul 2016 #3

Yes, but there is another factor --- The Blue Wall of Silence. Hoppy Jul 2016 #4

and sadly, protecting each other arithia Jul 2016 #8

The problem with your response is the fact that, avebury Jul 2016 #9

Your blanket condemnation is bigotted and prejudiced. You know nothing about the humans killed Bernardo de La Paz Jul 2016 #5

Nicely said. We need to separate the facts from the hipocary that divides the country. imanamerican63 Jul 2016 #6

That's disgusting bullshit. The cops who were killed had nothing to do with anything. DanTex Jul 2016 #7

NRA etc. need to be held accountable (2nd Amendment Remedies, Armed Uprising, etc.) groundloop Jul 2016 #10

Pull on a tiger's tail and taunt it long enough. . . DinahMoeHum Jul 2016 #11

You forgot the NRA exception for black people. Chemisse Jul 2016 #12

Well, isn't that a given? GUNZ don't kill, people do. Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #13

I usually follow that with "yeah. People kill people. WITH GUNS." calimary Jul 2016 #14

But, the willful cognitive dissonance just goes on and on. Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #15

No kidding. calimary Jul 2016 #18

This very reality explains SOME of the "disillusionment" with BHO, I think. You and I and Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #20

That's EXACTLY what I thought. calimary Jul 2016 #22

Your last paragraph says it all. The answer is up in neon: GUNZ are NOT the cure for the disease. Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #24

That's exactly what the gun nuts at the Bundy ranch were saying IronLionZion Jul 2016 #16

Gun goons. calimary Jul 2016 #19

The answer IronLionZion Jul 2016 #21

And once I actually tasted some well-prepared calimari that didn't taste like I was eating calimary Jul 2016 #23

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