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if the police have bigger and better guns will it stop the violence? / 05.22.08, 02:11 PM
here’s an article about the minimal fitness tests that officers are asked to undergo in qualifying for the recommended semiautomatic rifles that are to supposedly keep peace on our streets:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/953842,CST-NWS-guns16good.article
(why name the test : P.O.W.E.R?)
there will always be bigger and ‘better’ guns to get.
if the cops get these…and people still want to shoot and protect their own, they are just gonna go out and get bigger weapons themselves.
Will this mentality of having to always outdo the enemy in machinery in order to ‘control’ them, help us? it’s such a power struggle, right? i mean, can we just give that up? No- we don’t want people out on the streets shooting anybody and anything recklessly and carelessly. But shooting to prevent the shootings?
i dare think that this is not our answer to stopping this violence.
the M4s have the capability of carrying bullets within a mile radius compared to the quarter of a mile traveling bullets that the pistols set off now.
it’s horrifying, the decisions being made in the name of our ‘security’.
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That’s what I’m saying! It’s ridiculous. It’s like the arms race in the Cold war. Doggone it.
By Jordan / May 22, 02:48 PM / #