• Placebonickname@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I 2nd this. If you stop me or my wife the first thing I need to see if a badge, id, and warrant. Not one or the other. 2out of three at least.

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      7 months ago

      This is exactly where the 2nd amendment and the Blue Lives Matter movements collide. If both civilians and police have the legal right to arm and defend themselves with lethal force, and neither has a responsibility to show restraint or demonstrate cause, then you have created a situation where an innocent civilian and a good cop could kill each other in self defense and neither would have done anything wrong.

      Edit: I’m not going to respond to each comment saying there are no good cops. My point is that the cop does not have to be a bad cop for the civilian to have reasonable fear for their life, nor does the civilian need to be a criminal for the cop to have a reasonable fear for their life. Both are legally justified in killing the other person, and both are legally entitled to own a weapon capable of killing the other. That’s not a society, that’s a war. Ir we didn’t already have a police force, and you described their function in their current state to a peaceful society, they would think you were mad.

  • FRYD@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    I think it bears mentioning that the “deranged maniac” title isn’t the whole story. I don’t know about this guy in particular, but a lot of these guys are all part of far-right online cliques that share propaganda amongst each other while valorizing the guys who do this shit.

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          7 months ago

          Just to highlight some solidarity: Right groups celebrate that too. I don’t think any political spectrum takes the side of health insurance companies.

  • 😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    MAGA Nut Kills political opponents.

    End story.

    Civil War is in the beginning stages between L.A. and this.

    Sure, it started on inauguration day… but, now it’s truly ramping up.

  • throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works
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    7 months ago

    Hold on, someone killed legislators? Is this a hypothetical or did this just happen?

    What news have I been missing out on? Actually maybe I’d rather not know, too much depression right now.