• Leviathan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can ask both. I can even ask if maybe one of the reasons cops have that is that people are more heavily armed?

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        1 year ago

        The police aren’t a part of the community they serve, it’s explicitly trained into them to treat every situation as “us” vs “them”. If “they” have rifles then “we” need armored vehicles.

        Edit: to be very clear, I am not in support of police militarization.