• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    We have the legal precedent that protecting public safety isn’t their job because this was challenged in court, and their jobs were protected. They can’t be sacked for not doing what’s not their job.

    If I don’t do my job, I get sacked - I assume it’s the same for you… But what do I know - maybe it’s different for you enlightened English scholars.

    Let’s try to bring you back a third time… Why is it necessary for all police to have the ability to kill people with the press of a button? We have courts to deal out death sentences with due process and separation of powers, other countries’ cops don’t need guns.

    Maybe you should be studying the topic at hand, eh?

    • jasory@programming.dev
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      11 months ago

      “Why is it necessary for all police to have the ability to kill people with the press of a button”

      Why prohibit them? Everyone else can carry guns, why aren’t police permitted to have an equal amount of weaponry? In fact civilians even in many European countries can outgun police.

      Additionally you realize you can kill someone with a baton? It’s not that difficult, you characterising guns as particularly dangerous weapons that let police kill with impunity is pretty naive.

      “Let’s try to bring you back a third time” Considering that you flatly refuse to acknowledge the first two times, why am I supposed to expect you to acknowledge it a third time? I’ve already refuted your argument, and yet you beg for more, and are puzzled why I call you illiterate.

      You’ve been playing a grand Motte and Bailey, alternating from asserting that police are just fatasses eating doughnuts because they have no legal obligation to do their job, to portraying them as Einsatzgruppen massacring civilians just because they have a 9mm.

      “Maybe you should be studying the topic at hand”

      No, I’m not the one here who talks out of my ass. So let me ask you two questions.

      How many people have been shot by police in the US?

      What percentage of police involved shootings involve an active shooter? Not an armed person, an active shooter that is firing a weapon to kill either police or another person. (You know a clear and obvious attempted homicide case).

      Just because people riot and burn down precincts doesn’t mean that their concerns are valid. After all by this standard Donald Trump must have won the 2020 election because some people really believed it.

      People being unjustly killed by police is such a small fraction as to be inconsequential. Keep in mind that the vast majority of police killings would be classified as self-defence if committed by any other citizen. There would be much greater harm in stripping police of there ability to act/react to a violent assailant. (There you go, explained it a third time for you).