Two policemen executed for Brown/Garner

[Murphy3]

Any country with Obama at the head of the government needs a well armed public.

[SeanL]

Originally Posted by Murphy3

Any country with Obama at the head of the government needs a well armed public.

Why? And what would you do with those guns?

[mcsluggo]

Originally Posted by Murphy3

Any country with Obama at the head of the government needs a well armed public.

Anybody that makes dumbass statements like that needs to get kicked in the shin by an old lady in tap shoes

[dude1394]

The great Heather MacDonald.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/h...icle-1.2062346

"The real injustice occurred decades ago, when police officers across the country ignored crime in black neighborhoods. Today, the NYPD devotes the majority of its resources and energy to saving lives in poor communities. Any “danger” that Dante de Blasio might face comes overwhelmingly from black criminals, not the police, de Blasio should acknowledge.

In 2013, criminals committed 1,103 shootings, wounding or killing 1,299 victims. NYPD officers, by contrast, fired their guns 40 times, despite having been dispatched 80,000 times to investigate weapons reports and having encountered guns and other weapons in more than 30,000 arrests.

That firearms discharge number is the lowest since the department began collecting data. The police injured 17 people and killed eight — again, a record low. Almost all those victims had extensive and serious criminal records; most had threatened the officer with deadly force.

Whites were far more likely to be shot by the police than blacks when their crime rates are taken into account.

Whites were 5% of all suspects shot by the police in 2013 though they committed only 2% of the city’s shootings — a 250% disparity. Blacks were 75% of criminal shooters and 79% of police shooting victims — virtual parity."