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The vast majority of police should not be armed. They are simply not well enough trained.

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If the population is armed the police should be armed. Simple as that. Good luck getting the population disarmed in less than a century, and thats if you get them to pass the constitutional amendment first.

> If the population is armed the police should be armed.

Interesting assertion. But there is no basis in fact. Legal gun owners, think of them and their choices what you will, also tend to be law-abiding.

I know they are mostly law abiding. I am one of them. My point is that you can't expect a police force to go unarmed when there is a 50/50 chance someone in each call is armed. No one would want to do that job.

> No one would want to do that job.

That's another assertion without any basis. Cop boards are full of statements like that. Exactly 0.00% of cops making such statements have quit.

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