Defund the Police

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I still have no idea what a liberal parade is.

But if you think I don’t think Seattle has issues then you haven’t been paying attention. There is a reason I have cofounded and sit on the board of orgs dedicated to improve Seattle, regularly testify in front of council and other bodies and attend protests (which I have posted on WF).

Yes, I do regularly post stuff about our economy in a thread about how Seattle is ruining said economy but that doesn’t mean I don’t think the city has huge room for improvement.

Don't feel too bad. This world has gotten so fucking crazy sometimes the real news reads like satire.

Constantly defending one thing, automatically means, according to sone on this board, that you are defending ALL of it. Whatever “it” is.

other than when you're complaining about Star Trek or brown people, yes.

You know he meant "paradise." Or are you getting as simple-minded as @Marso?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...1844d4-a78c-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html

I totally support their efforts! The 2nd is for everybody who is legally authorized to carry weapons.
That said this video may confuse some wordforge members because it veers off the narrative of "Guntards" and "Trumpistas" being the fearful ones packing weapons.

Not really.

Those black people wouldn't have to take up arms against armed right wing militias if those militias weren't enabled by the 2A in the first place.

And let's not forget that the NRA was a "sportsmen's club" until the Black Panthers started showing up at polling places.

I thought the Three Strikes law had been repealed a long ass time ago, tbh. That shit was a horrible mess.

So who's minding the store while replacements are vetted, trained, and deployed?

Pretty sure that, because we only have one tweet, that the entire city council made the decision without a plan.

It's a state-by-state thing. Some have, some haven't.

And I'm wondering whether, even in the states that repealed it, there are still people serving time under the old laws.

Presumably the MN state police.

sorry for the really belated response, but I’m having a GOTG afternoon and this reminded of this post.

They aren't taking up arms against right wing militias they are taking up arms to defend themselves against anybody who could harm them in their neighborhoods. Fuck as smart as you are you sure miss the point a lot!

the three strikes law is state, not federal. Thus some states have it, some don't.

It's very simple. You have an armed populace, something largely anomalous in the civilised world. You have a police force who have to, yup, police said armed populace.

The police therefore arm themselves to deal with the perceived threat. The population arm themselves further because being able to resist an armed oppressor is what the 2A is suppose to be all about in spirit and practise. The police therefore acquire military style vehicles and employ SWAT teams.

The end result is you have an arm race between an increasingly paranoid population and a police force who act like a domestic military rather than servants of the public. Throw racial tensions, social inequality and all those other goodies into the mix and when it inevitably goes south (which it absolutely has done) this is the result. You have untrained amateurs patrolling around with guns like it's the wild west while the police fight the very people they're supposed to protect AND IDIOTS WHO THINK THIS IS A GOOD THING.

that's life in the big city! But again you are slightly confused. Most police forces arm themselves with better weapons because many criminals arm themselves with better weapons, not because of armed militias. Agree they can drop the military hardware because so far (in the U.S. anyway) criminal gangs aren't using military grade equipment too often. South America & Mexico some of those criminal gangs are indeed using military grade stuff on occasion.

So there's a third group arming themselves and competing with the other two.

When is it going to sink in that this hasn't worked?

when Biden is elected and everyone lays down their weapons and sings Kumbaya! Trump started this whole arms race - I figured you knew that.
So basically about six months or so.

You're going to word police when only 10% of certain groups can barely string a sentence together? Really?

Like Your Boy Donnie? All those private schools and he can't even spell.

private schools

there's your answer
nobody pays for their kid to get bad grades...

I certainly don't.

Jenny Durkan is (presently) the mayor of Seattle. Cyrus Habib is the Lt. Gov of Washington state.

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