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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by avar on Sunday December 31, 2017 @07:56AM (#16040417)
I'm mostly replying to the thread at large, which started with lb1lf pointing out that the police response was the problem, and this side-thread is now bogged down in the quagmire of arguing what constitutes as a non-lethal and lethal weapon.

Of course the weapon in question is also a variable, but I by far the biggest variable is police behavior in the US, where it seems every situation calls for force escalation and solving the matter at hand with a full-on assault of some sort.

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Re:LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting c... by glenstein on Sunday December 31, 2017 @04:06PM (#16042984)
I agree that the thread was needlessly bogged down with a continuum fallacy about the word lethal.

I think you're right that escalating behavior is a significant variable. But I think that's a very tough thing to change. It may be that the low hanging fruit consists in changing the equipment rather than the culture. But I don't disagree with you in the big picture.

Anyway, I'll be careful not to assume your comments are attempting to be responsive to the things they reply to when I see them in the future, to prevent my misunderstanding.

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