Police firearms are used far more often as a threat to force compliance thannthey are to defend life.
TrueThat’s highly debatable, especially considering the ‘force compliance’ circumstances are usually in life-threatening scenarios, but you’re still almost certainly vastly overestimating either use.
By disarming most on-duty officers like a civilized country we’d have a more peaceful society because the police wouldn’t feel as empowered to escalate conflicts.
It’s possible, but in the interim there’d be a lot of deaths. The “civilized countries” you’re referring to don’t have the Second Amendment, a culture of violence, or (usually) as much distrust of government as Americans do.
Being a police officer isn’t a particularly dangerous job.
I never said it was.
Honestly I’m not going to bother reading the rest of your comment because you are repeatedly jerking the wheel into a conversation that you prefer to have rather than the conversation we were having and I’m getting bored of it.
TrueThat’s highly debatable, especially considering the ‘force compliance’ circumstances are usually in life-threatening scenarios, but you’re still almost certainly vastly overestimating either use.It’s possible, but in the interim there’d be a lot of deaths. The “civilized countries” you’re referring to don’t have the Second Amendment, a culture of violence, or (usually) as much distrust of government as Americans do.
I never said it was.
Honestly I’m not going to bother reading the rest of your comment because you are repeatedly jerking the wheel into a conversation that you prefer to have rather than the conversation we were having and I’m getting bored of it.