Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enforcement Requests

Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by p1necone on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:38PM (#21349469)

Have you considered that the answer to systematic failures in the governance of the United States might be better fixed at a systematic level, rather than just arming everyone?

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Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by falcolas on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:17PM (#21350156)

Until those hypothetical fixes are in place, what do you do? Disarm everybody?

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Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by lilyball on Thursday October 24, 2019 @07:20PM (#21350182)

Yes.

Individual citizens trying to fight cops with firepower is never going to work. Cops have much better equipment than you're going to have, and have the backing of the entire government.

Unless you're literally planning on staging a coup, arming yourself to fight cops is not a viable strategy.

On the other hand, if we disarm everybody, then we don't need to have such over-militarized cops either, and maybe we can finally get to a place where cops no longer automatically reach for their gun (or even carry one) and therefore stop routinely murdering citizens.

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Re:Ring Gave Police Stats About Users Who Said No to Law Enf... by geggam on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:01PM (#21350428)

This argument has worked for every democide in the 20th century

Govts should fear the citizens, not the other way around.

Tyranny is a thing you want to avoid

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