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silvershibe 37 points ago +37 / -0

Vague laws cause unrest. People need to know exactly what they can or can’t do, and exactly what the consequences are for those actions.

We need clear laws like the one you mentioned. We also need to clearly define leading police on car chases as a deadly threat to the public, and allow immediate deadly force to stop them. I think the same argument could be made for fighting with police to resist arrest.

I don’t know when we all decided that Police should have to oil up and Greco-Roman wrestle every suspect for every arrest, but I don’t believe that’s in the job description. They should be able to politely ask you to put the cuffs on yourself, or be treated as a deadly threat. Complying with an arrest is not optional. The courts are there for your appeal.

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PurestEvil 16 points ago +19 / -3

I'm personally no fan of police. I'd much rather prefer maximized self-defence capabilities. The riots could never have taken place if people weren't completely disarmed and helpless, having to rely on the police who abandoned and betrayed them.

But sure, clear laws would be great, but there are 2 issues: Cases are often nuanced, sometimes complex - there can be many factors in play, and you want to judge people individually based on what they did. And the 2nd issue is that legislators, lawyers, courts all thrive from complexity in the law system. The harder it gets to be understood, the more people have to rely on lawyers, and the higher the scope of judge's sentences.

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silvershibe 11 points ago +11 / -0

Police are a necessary part of the equation. We don’t live in a society of unlimited freedom. We impose our collective will on everyone through laws, and must have the ability to enforce compliance, or some wouldn’t comply.

The fact we’ve allowed non-compliance to become the rule, not the exception, is the problem. No criminal’s life is important enough that the cop should have to risk their life or injury to arrest you. It’s not worth a paper cut. You’d be surprised how quickly the resisting, running, etc would stop if they knew there would be no warnings, no tasers, no chase.

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PurestEvil 1 point ago +3 / -2

It's not non-compliance that is the core at the problem. It's Marxism and Socialism and the subversive process that progresses towards them. People become degenerate, commit more crime, become more violent, or just generally get a lot of societal support for their bad behaviors.

No criminal’s life is important enough that

But the police doesn't know who is criminal or not. Knowing that with certainty is a luxury many do not have. There are also plenty of instances where people are treated unlawfully, are innocent, were just pranked or where cops are actually corrupt or intentionally abusive. Power corrupts, and that is true on ALL levels in society.

What you describe sounds almost like a Soviet Union type police state nightmare, where 100% obedience is demanded by default to the police and all authorities, even if they exert unconstitutional or unlawful actions. Resistance - be it passive or active - is an important concept, and also the reason why the 2A exists in the first place. The Democrat controlled states are TYRANNICAL right now. If you are part of their little group (BLM, Democrat, Antifa), you can do whatever you want. If you resist, you get persecuted. The police are ordered to stand back and let the Bolsheviks do whatever they want.

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silvershibe 7 points ago +7 / -0

Police don’t need to prove their case for an arrest. That’s for the courts. They only need probable cause. You don’t get to “opt out” and decide when arresting YOU, they have to have a jury there ready to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Deathlessly 2 points ago +2 / -0

Cops exist so that the law is more than just words on paper.

A civilian shooting another civilian because they say their rights were being violated by the other is just an argument. With guns.

When you get to a judge and they say that "yeah that guy is right", it means nothing if the judge just refers to the civilian to "take them away".

Make no mistake. Cops are the pointy end of the law. It's their job to implement consequences. It's the people's job to take tyrants off the seat of power.

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PurestEvil 0 points ago +1 / -1

I am not saying the police should be abolished or is redundant. I am merely saying that an increase of power to the police as silvershibe suggested is not the right solution - letting people arm themselves however is (or rather stopping to disarm them so vehemently). Self-defence and deterrence are two major factors than can solve crimes before and when they occur.

I really won't want to deal with police who can just conveniently shoot me if I run away from them. What if I have a morally good reason or if it's amoral to persecute me for something they want to? And what if they just lie about me running away? Power corrupts.

"There is nothing to fear if you are innocent" is very naive, and is exactly what lead tens of millions of people in the Soviet Union and China to be arrested by some type of police and inevitably get shipped to gulags. They even arrested innocent people in hand's reach because they had to fulfill arrest quotas. And the arrest -> incarceration rate was 100%.

I am all for executing criminal scum - even thieves. But NOT by empowering the hand of the government.

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gummibarenaked 7 points ago +7 / -0

I've always wondered why schools don't have police officers come in and explain to kids exactly what's expected of citizens during an encounter with the police?

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Block_Helen 2 points ago +2 / -0

Think about who runs the schools.

The Dems profit from racial unrest and from law enforcement not being able to do their jobs safely and effectively.

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gummibarenaked 2 points ago +2 / -0

I got all of this information from my dad when I was growing up. Dad wasn't much into sit-down formal talks or lectures. He looked us in the eye and told us how something was to be done and why it was to be done that way. It seemed to us that he was always watching. I remember once my brothers and I were out hunting with our new 4-10s. Somehow dad saw us crossing a fence in an unsafe manner. The moment we got back to the house, our 4-10s went into the hall closet for a week and we never did that ever again.

Nobody is watching the kids these days like they used to do. The kids know this. Worse, they're convinced that they're actually innocent so long as there were no witnesses.

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OrenthalJamesObama 1 point ago +1 / -0

If the media and the left were truly woke, they’d make an effort to educate people on this. It isn’t like cops are just walking up and executing people (the reverse actually happens to some cops). It is ALWAYS the result of a struggle or unpredictable actions by the deceased.

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GeoG85 3 points ago +3 / -0

Clown Laws are vague laws. This was expected, after all the clown shit that was going on. Us Conservatives, normal people, like good concrete laws to follow and teach our kids. Laws are originally meant and designed to help everyone involved, it's original purpose before corrupt infestation. But when it's clown show, anything goes, this person is in charge, now this person is in charge - it was only inevitable to collapse. :/ Imo*

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based_trekkie 3 points ago +3 / -0

If you SHOOT AT or SHOOT someone on your property you do not want on your property either MAIMING OR KILLING THEM, and they are either:

  1. On Illegal Drugs

  2. Have had a FELONY conviction within the last 10 years

  3. A Current Fugitive from the Law.

  4. Are on probation for a Felony or VIOLENT misdemeanor.

  5. Or are Currently in the act of committing a violent crime ( sex assault included) or a property crime such a theft/burglary/armed robbery or crime against a minor.

THERE SHALL BE NO CHARGES AGAINST THE LANDOWNER.

PERIOD!!!

CASE FUCKING CLOSED!!!

If they are a FUGITIVE, the community leader should be FORCED TO GIVE YOU A FUCKING MEDAL TOO!

FUCKIN' PERIOD!

ONLY ONE CAVEAT -

IF YOU MISS THEM....

IT IS A 25 dollar FINE PER SHOT! Or you have to take a training course at a gun range!

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based_trekkie 2 points ago +2 / -0

It should be called:

"SUICIDE BY ARMED LANDOWNER"

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