"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Why We Need To Stop Exaggerating The Threat To Cops
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Exaggeration? It does not sound like exaggerations to me.
Really? Balko demonstrates that law enforcement deaths have gone down for decades.
Eric Field: I concur. Was recently reading a piece from policeone.com regarding police safety despite the fact they were actually discussing citizens carrying firearms. The majority of officers responding to the article concurred that citizens with firearms on their person did more than they possibly could is causing the decline in crime. What is sickening is the several state governors are putting together basically gun confiscation bills. Whether they stand up in court will be another matter.
My machine seems to have a skill at making double and sometimes tripple posts. Why?