Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Terrorists Do

Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by zeveb on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:14AM (#11290229)

> In many European countries, police officers are only minimally armed (just a handgun, used only in rare circumstances).

And yet when I've been in Europe I've seen plenty of police and/or paramilitary units carrying submachine guns, something I never saw here in the U.S. even after 11 September.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by MagnumOpus on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:42PM (#11291482)

At a guess, you saw them at the airport, the largest central rail station or the parliament building - which are just about the only places they carry automatic weapons. A tourist will visit all of these points, the average local - especially one that doesn't live in the capital - might go years without seeing one.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by mikestew on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:05PM (#11292161)

something I never saw here in the U.S. even after 11 September.

They were there, mainly at the airport. Not in recent years, and probably not very long after 2001, but I certainly saw armed military at the U. S. airports for six months or more after 09/11/01.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by TallGuyShort on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:20AM (#11290278)

Curious, as I haven't been to Europe - were these at border posts? Public transit hubs? Anything else?

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by pjc50 on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:37AM (#11290413)

Yeah, transport hubs especially airports but also some railway stations will often have conspicuously armed police patrolling. And high-profile government buildings. The UK gun of choice for this is the distinctive HK MP5 submachine gun.

Conversely if you want to see the use of the AR-15 in public artwork, you should go to Northern Ireland.

In Switzerland I once saw a conscript get on a train and put his rifle in the luggage rack exactly as if it were an umbrella. But Switzerland is different (guns are mandatory, ammunition heavily controlled, the people are the "militia" and support the government, and the whole country is a mountain fortress).

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by dagw on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:10PM (#11292195)

Last summer when I was in Switzerland I got on train with at least 50 conscripts, all casually on their way home with a beer in one hand and an assalt rifle in the the other. Kind of a weird sight.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by zeveb on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:28AM (#11290339)

I've seen them walking around in train stations, airports, public squares and on the sidewalk. Remarkable from an American perspective.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by zeveb on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:50PM (#11292047)

I really gotta ask: why was this downvoted? It's composed of purely factual statements in answer to a question.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by anu_gupta on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @01:25PM (#11291308)

I guess it's almost as remarkable as the number of people in the USA who actually get killed by police.

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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by oldmanjay on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @02:47PM (#11292020)

Do you feel like this was a useful comment? If so, to what end?

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