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minus-squareMeansalladknifehands@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoNo, I don’t know who is an idiot and who isn’t, so less people having guns means less idiots have guns. police and military have vetting and training, regular citizens do not.
minus-squareCaptainProton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoVetted people with impunity and different interests from your own. But vetted, yes. After a cops own well-being comes the “blue wall of silence”, then their actual orders, and finally you, you come last in their priorities. https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/police-integrity-lost-study-law-enforcement-officers-arrested
No, I don’t know who is an idiot and who isn’t, so less people having guns means less idiots have guns. police and military have vetting and training, regular citizens do not.
Vetted people with impunity and different interests from your own. But vetted, yes.
After a cops own well-being comes the “blue wall of silence”, then their actual orders, and finally you, you come last in their priorities.
https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/police-integrity-lost-study-law-enforcement-officers-arrested