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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBecause gun owners love their guns more than they love police.
That's why they won't leave their guns home during the RNC Convention and why Ohio pols won't suspend the open carry law for less than a week.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Every paranoid schizophrenic gun humper at the convention thinking everyone else is a hidden muslin.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Gun nuts are terrified and feel helpless that SOMEONE is out to get them, guns help alleviate their fear. That's why they put more worth on their guns than the lives of others.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)I can understand why the Klan would love police, since they do their work for them, but others?
Calculating
(2,955 posts)What should I love? The constant ruining of lives over marijuana offenses? The enforcement of unconstitutional laws? Revenue collection via petty traffic stops? Asset forfeiture where citizens are robbed of their property without due process? Power tripping cops who shove your face into the dirt? Racially discriminatory policing where minorities are unjustly targeted? The constant shootings of unarmed citizens? It's not that I want anarchy, but we need to do SOMETHING about our out of control law enforcement.
UnFettered
(79 posts)The police only do as the law tells them. You need to go higher up the ladder to find the source of the problem.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)The police have unions and lobby to get laws favorable to them. Cannabis legalization laws are frequently opposed by prison guard unions/LE groups and such. That's just one example. The police also have their own personal discretion. They're not mindless robots. If they see a guy commit some petty crime like rolling a 4-way-stop with nobody around, they don't NEED to go give the poor guy a ticket and ruin his day. They do it anyway though, because they want the revenue. They don't NEED to interrogate black people just for driving down the street, or ruin some kids record because he had a little sack of weed.
The whole "Just doing our jobs" argument has NEVER been an excuse. The enforcers of tyranny are no better than tyrants themselves.
UnFettered
(79 posts)I'm just saying the blame is also warranted at the people that make those laws also if not equally. Many many problems stem back to the war on drugs and feeding an industrial prison complex.
Calculating
(2,955 posts)Can't disagree with that.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)and the safety orange parrots will along soon to demonstrate.
sylvanus
(122 posts)SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)watching the gun scum/badge lickers try and figure out which circle to jerk.
"But muh gunz."
"But muh kopz."
"Muh Gunz!"
"Muh Kopz!"
"GUNZ!"
"KOPZ!"
I just hope that when the vacuum between their ears implodes, that they don't get any goo on the rest of us.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)New Black Panthers will be carrying to protect a black unity rally. Bikers for Trump will be there 'for security against agitators and to help police'.
Clearly there is so little trust, that carrying seems to be necessary, and the smarter thing - "just in case".'