07-08-2016, 12:35 PM
(07-08-2016, 12:19 PM)GMDino Wrote: That's a brilliant take.
Rep.
And I totally agree on the violent behavior...
Not his take, he was reporting some garbage being spewed to justify last night's incident. They, and you, sound exactly like the people after the Charlie Hedbo attacks who condemned the violence but excused it because it was a response to the magazine mocking the prophet.
(07-08-2016, 12:28 PM)Benton Wrote: I wouldn't say it counts as oppressive government as there's no unified effort. There isn't some state cabinet promoting the idea that all law enforcement officers should shoot first and confiscate cell phones second. If anything, there's the opposite in many states where the government is calling for less profiling and less use of force.
I do see where some people could get the impression it's the government. LEO's work for some branch of it, either local, state or federal. But most people don't understand the gap between the top and the bottom. A state senator has no real connection to a sheriff's deputy in his state, outside of maybe voting on the guy's hazardous duty pay. Your local city councilman isn't calling up a city police Lt. and reminding them to read the Miranda rights. And sure, there are plenty of examples where law makers interfere with law enforcement, but I'm talking about the regular day-to-day, it's not a situation where the two are overlapping.
In terms of their 2nd amendment rights, I could see if this were people attacking lawmakers for things they've done, but this isn't that.
Pretty much this. Every time there's a potential bad shoot the total number of blacks killed by police is brought up. The total number doesn't mean a damn thing in this context, the number of potentially bad shoots does. If 500 black people are killed by police in a year and five of them were bad shoots why would anyone logically bring up the other 495 when discussing them? Point being, this is not a concerted effort by the any government as evidenced by the huge geographic spread of the incidents.
In terms of 2nd amendment rights, would the same apologists in the OP maintain that opinion is people attacked the lawmakers and the governor in CA that just turned millions of previously law abiding citizens into criminals?
