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originally posted by: mortex
originally posted by: Irishhaf
a reply to: opethPA
Yup bads been happening forever, I just wonder if the pace has increased or are we so connected that we have information overload and this amount of bad is standard.
It's information overload because society has become more dangerous.
There's more drugs out on the streets now, and not just marijuana or coc aine or heroin. But drugs that aren't even based on any plant, but 100% chemicals and other poisons. Things like Ice are creating massive problems in lots of places.
The fear is being drilled into people.
And I'll tell you one thing. Since we've had a free trade agreement here in Australia with the USA, we are getting more and more and more news about what's happening there. We are always being told what the US president is saying or doing. Like I give a sh** what the US president is doing, or what's happening over there in some tiny city or town or suburb that nobody has ever heard of. We've got our own problems.
originally posted by: doompornjunkie
originally posted by: Taupin Desciple
a reply to: opethPA
This sounds like a good story to help point out WHY officers shoot suspects. In a lot of cases, they're pre-emptive strikes regardless of color.
The cop haters make it sound like cops shouldn't shoot at all. Just stand there and take the bullets.
Absolutely agree! The comment that perplexes me the most is 'civilians/LEO's should wait until they are shot at before they shoot'... Seriously? I don't see any benefit to giving criminals threatening lethal force the benefit of the doubt, or at least no benefit for the innocent.