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thishereboi -> RE: Yet another unarmed black man shot to death by police (9/29/2016 3:40:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
How about a thought experiment ? How about this occuring in say Britain, Ireland, Norway, Iceland and New Zealand, officers are unarmed when they are on patrol. Police are only equipped with firearms in special circumstances.
Police officers there have saved lives exactly because they were unable to shoot.
"The practice is rooted in tradition and the belief that arming the police with guns engenders more gun violence than it prevents," Guðmundur Oddsson, an assistant professor of sociology at Northern Michigan University, told The Washington Post.
As the U.S. debates gun control and better policing, these five nations could teach some crucial lessons.
In Iceland, one third of all citizens are armed but police officers are not most of the time.
When police shot a man in Iceland in 2013, it was the first time police had used their firearms and killed a person in the history of this country, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Granted, Iceland is a tiny country with only 300,000 inhabitants.
However, one third of the country's population is armed with rifles and shotguns for hunting, making it the 15th most armed country per capita in the world. Despite this, crime is extremely rare.
Just a thought hey.
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I wonder how many of those cops would like to come over here and cover a few shifts in LA or Detroit or Chicago without guns and show us how easy it is? My guess is the lesson learned wouldn't be the one they were aiming for.
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