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Originally Posted by Willie Sutton
This ought to be a bit of an embarrassment to those making such proposals: it certainly undercuts their claim that only "trained professionals" should be trusted with such things. Folks in law enforcement won't be happy if the proponents of such legislation start arguing that they, too, should be prohibited from owning them
And a talking point that we should use again, and again, and again, and again... every time "special rights" are conferred on retired LEO's, who are after all.... *just like us*...
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Retired? Look at the bad behavior of the ones still on the force in his case.
We've been discussing exactly this point, the increasing militarization of the police, on another board in relationship to the unprovoked shooting of the newspaper delivery women. That conversation started way before the house was burned down.
My point there has been that somehow the media will find a way to twist the facts into a media case that "trained police" are still the only ones qualified to carry guns because they shot up two completely innocent bystanders who engaged in no provocative behavior.
I dare say that had a military SpecOps team done this there would be a very serious disciplinary hearing going on now.