Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers?

Re:Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? by reader5000 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @01:49PM (#7454232)

I never brought up penises at any point. Are you aware that you yourself said "I'm in the UK and I find the US obsession with owning guns weird"? How is my comment different from yours? HN swings fairly hyper-individualist / libertarian / conspiracy theorist so data-backed, rational gun regulation comments are going to get downvoted. But I don't think the comment was wildly out of line as you seem to think.

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Re:Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? by DanBC on Sunday March 23, 2014 @03:23PM (#7454652)

You think your comments are making rational data-backed points and are only being down voted by libertarians?

I am anti gun, pro gun control. I down voted your comment because it added no value to the discussion, it was purely inflammatory, and certainly had no data to support it.

You may wish to re-read your posts in this thread.

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Re:Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? by reader5000 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @04:00PM (#7454840)

Let's just be clear: when I call gun ownership "weird", it's "purely inflammatory", but when you do, it totally adds value to the discussion.

I invite you to reread this thread and determine who derailed an enlightening discussion regarding the psychology of US gun ownership and police militarization with ad hominmen and completely off-topic attacks on another's commenting style.

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Re:Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? by mason240 on Sunday March 23, 2014 @04:21PM (#7454949)

>I invite you to reread this thread and determine who derailed an enlightening discussion

I just did and it appears to be you. You are making 2 kinds of comments in this thread: 1) inflammatory comments that appear to be deliberately written to cause a derailing flamewar, and 2) comments accusing everyone else of making inflammatory comments written to cause a derailing flamewar.

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