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Old 09-10-2018, 07:40 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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In bizarro world I guess..
Government "law enforcement" is the reason why minority communities are overrepresented in prisons.
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Old 09-10-2018, 07:43 PM
 
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Government "law enforcement" is the reason why minority communities are overrepresented in prisons.
It's just policies that need change. How do we keep people safe if there's no enforcement of safety? Not everyone wants to play the wild west.

Just buy Red Dead Redemption on XBox or PS4, get your fill there. It's pretty awesome in fact. Just not IRL..
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Old 09-10-2018, 07:46 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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Are you one of those "sovereign citizens"? You guys are hilarious on You Tube. Especially the part where you end up in jail after yapping on and on and on.
Nope, although I sympathize with many of their beliefs. But what they do is the equivalent of avoiding cracks in the sidewalk because doing so will prevent their mothers from getting back injuries.
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Old 09-10-2018, 07:47 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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How about this.



Raise a gun to someone and expect to get shot. It's no more simple than that.
It's the natural right to self-defense. And it goes for cops and non-cops, government employees and non-government employees, politicians and non-politicians. No one has more right to self-defense than anyone else.
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Old 09-10-2018, 07:49 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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It's just policies that need change. How do we keep people safe if there's no enforcement of safety? Not everyone wants to play the wild west.

Just buy Red Dead Redemption on XBox or PS4, get your fill there. It's pretty awesome in fact. Just not IRL..
"Safety" is an illusion. There is no such thing as absolute safety.

The code of the streets should be universal--I protect mine, you protect yours.
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Old 09-10-2018, 07:57 PM
 
Location: SE Asia
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"Safety" is an illusion. There is no such thing as absolute safety.

The code of the streets should be universal--I protect mine, you protect yours.
That sounds awesome!!!!!!!! whoa but wait. What about when you are kind of old? Like 70 year old grandmother old? Who protects her?

What about 6 years old and parents are worthless drug addicts and the kid needs help?

Yeah that's kind of where your idea falters.
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Old 09-10-2018, 07:59 PM
 
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How about this.



Raise a gun to someone and expect to get shot. It's no more simple than that.
Or sell loose cigarettes and expect to get strangled and asphyxiated.

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Old 09-10-2018, 08:04 PM
 
Location: southern california
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Many end up injured killed or incarcerated for the reasons I see expressed on the CDF threads
“I am above the law”
I never understood the reasoning that says —-if people over six foot -who rob liquor stores are arrested -
This is discrimination -not against store robbers -but against 6 foot people
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Old 09-10-2018, 08:06 PM
 
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"Safety" is an illusion. There is no such thing as absolute safety.

The code of the streets should be universal--I protect mine, you protect yours.
There is no 100% safety. It's not an illusion when someone tries to mug me and an officer intervines or if a robber backs off after seeing a cop near the bank, or if I can call the cops if I see a store being robbed.

Not it's not perfect. Nothing is. But it's worked, and it needs work and it needs to improve because it isn't perfect. But it's better than your idea. Because anyone can make up their own laws and morals.
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Old 09-10-2018, 08:07 PM
 
Location: Denver, CO
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That sounds awesome!!!!!!!! whoa but wait. What about when you are kind of old? Like 70 year old grandmother old? Who protects her?

What about 6 years old and parents are worthless drug addicts and the kid needs help?

Yeah that's kind of where your idea falters.
Her neighbors.

Just like they would now. Same with the child.

People help each other out; it's human nature.
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