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Re:Serial Swatter Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes by jMyles on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:15PM (#16054513)
> Police have to assume that there is a possibility that anyone that they interact with is armed to the teeth.

I've never understood this argument. I assume that some 10-30% (depending on where I am in the country) of people around me are carrying a concealed weapon, and yet I don't react with such recklessness.

We are all surrounded by guns all the time; in what way are police disproportionately vulnerable as a result?

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Re:Serial Swatter Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes by wang_li on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @04:22PM (#16055790)
The police are -- more or less by definition -- interacting with people in an adversarial way. Add on top of that the fact that if the police are being called to intercede then the situation is one in which social mores have broken down.

If we put police in the circumstances you describe, the number of people randomly walking down the street who were shot by a police officer also randomly walking down the street was 0 last year.

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