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If you’re terrified of being shot you won’t mind having armed police everywhere.
But that's why I'm terrified of being shot
The only way to assuage your fear of being shot is to arm more people.
To arm more police people, that is. Not ordinary people. Most people in the world have some degree of mental instability, and humans are too quick-tempered and unable to control their impulses. I do not want such people armed with guns at all.
did you drop this? "/s"
I think you've got this reversed
So true!!
The only way to assuage your fear of arming more people is to be shot.
ah, now we're talking
Ok, so I'm not crazy.
Well that sounds alarming, but in Mexico they do have armed police everywhere and the citizens actually feel safer. I don't wish for a dystopian "big brother" world either, but with so many mental people abusing their gun rights and killing others, that is looking more and more like a not so implausible possibility. Frankly, I'd rather have police armed and everywhere than most lay people running around, pulling a gun every time someone looks at them funny or gives the them wrong order at McDonalds.