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These cops were armed weren't they? So they couldn't help themselves, how would Joe Schmo off the street help them? Regardless, armed or not these things happen, you can't predict that they're going to happen & clearly even if someone was armed these cops would've been killed anyway, that was what the killer intended. He's dead now too so at least he's not out there running around waiting to kill more people, right?
Recently four police officers of the state of Washington were gunned down in a coffee shop, by a person who apparently entered the shop for the purpose of deliberately targeting those officers. Since this is a politics-discussion forum, I guess we should ask a political question related to this tragedy, since some people will (as usual) start insisting we need more gun restrictions to keep this from happening.
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Should the 2nd amendment be repealed and something put in its place saying something like:
"Government recognizes no inherent right of ordinary citizens to keep and bear arms. Government will have the power to regulate, restrict, or ban the ownership of guns and other such weapons by some or all ordinary citizens."?
Just make it illegal to shoot people, and make it illegal for felons to own a gun - problem solved.
No. It should be respected - much more than it currently is.
Legislation passed as a knee-jerk reaction to a single incident is never good legislation. Repealing one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights isn't likely to be the answer to anything, unless the question is, "How do we soften our citizenry so much that we can subject them to whatever tyrannical whims we choose?"
So the solution you were about to propose is.......??
There is not a please all "solution" to end the Arms Race in America......
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