Re:“Swatter” Tyler Barriss Charged with Involuntary Manslaug...
by thisacctforreal on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:30AM
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There isn't a clear set of policies that will put an end to mass shootings, at least not without overhauls in the current interpretation of the US constitution.
America Uncovered (same crew as China Uncensored) made a pretty-balanced video on the topic https://youtube.com/watch?v=hAtLnTyimT0
Re:“Swatter” Tyler Barriss Charged with Involuntary Manslaug...
by DoreenMichele on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @05:10AM
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looking at how it's solved by everyone else isn't considered worth debating in the US.
There is a very big difference between that and some blowhard European acting like they know what is best for the US. I am all for good discussion on such subjects.
Yes they should, and they are in the rest of the world. Being a competent police officer is not supposed to be an easy job, and not everyone has what it takes to be trusted amid civilians with deadly weapons.
> Pranks [...] should be labelled serious crimes and prosecuted accordingly.
That is also true, but not the #1 priority. Most unnecessary uses of deadly force by police aren't triggered by pranks. I sure expect Tyler to rot in jail for quite some time, I'd be mad if he weren't. Ditto for the wannabe Dirty Harry who killed a civilian he swore to serve and protect. The thing is, I'm confident the former will happen, and I fear the latter won't.
> I get rather tired of blow hard Europeans imagining they know what is best for internal matters of the US
What baffles me is that even when a problem is solved in all of the non-US developed world, looking at how it's solved by everyone else isn't considered worth debating in the US. Or as the Onion puts it every few months, when a US mass shooting occurs:
https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...