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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by ajmurmann on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:54AM (#16034066)
I think part of the problem is a indirect result of the US gun policy. In pretty much any other civilized country is very, very rare that the police will encounter someone who is armed. In the US guns are everywhere. So the police constantly feels threatened for good reason. So to me lots of these issues are even more cost from the US not being able to move its gun policy into the same century as every other civilized country.

I get the point about guns being important to protect against a fascist government, but then I literally see a p protest march by Nazis armed with assault rifles...

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by devmunchies on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:12AM (#16034104)
> So the police constantly feels threatened for good reason

So should we take away rights so the government feels less threatened? That seems like the wrong reason.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by ajmurmann on Saturday December 30, 2017 @10:41AM (#16035674)
I want to have the right to feel safe knowing that random people around me won't be carrying weapons made for the sole purpose of killing people.

"The government" - that's supposed to be the way we organize ourselves and stand up together to above things we believe in as a nation. While that's not always working well talking about it as if its given that it's a malevolent, suppressive regime is only going to make things worse. The US finally needs to do its wild West mentality and arrive on the 21st century with the rest of the civilized world.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by wu-ikkyu on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:32PM (#16036230)
That's a catch-22 isn't it?

Asking the most armed government in the world to eliminate gun violence, by using their guns?

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by ajmurmann on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:36PM (#16037022)
I'd hope we can get away from both armed government and armed citizens
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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by madengr on Saturday December 30, 2017 @11:38AM (#16035946)
That’s the great thing about the USA. You don’t have the “right to feel safe”. I’ll keep my guns, thank you.
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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by ajmurmann on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:46PM (#16037083)
That's surprising since we are putting a whole lot of money on making people feel safe from much less dangerous things.
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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by lmm on Saturday December 30, 2017 @12:50PM (#16036327)
Respecting any right comes at a cost in human lives. We should think very carefully about which things we consider so important as to be worth elevating them to that kind of absolute.

The cost:benefit of the second amendment is way out of proportion, IMO.

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Re:Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wic... by Density on Saturday December 30, 2017 @01:31AM (#16034157)
Don't worry. Lefties are arming up too.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/antifa-movement-...

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