• HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Police firearms are used far more often as a threat to force compliance thannthey are to defend life.

    True That’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.