Posted by: Garshne
Posted by: Sev808
Posted by: Garshne
America needs better police.
If the U.S. had better police you lot wouldn't be so paranoid and so "I need to be in charge of my own safety".Better Police....how interesting. And what do you think would make them better?Faster response times, more officers, better priorities, more regulation of the police force so as to root out corrupt members, more ability to combat prevalent violent crime.
The main response I hear of why people want guns (on this site) is that they do not trust the police or the government with their own safety. Thus, the solution is to get the government and police to such a standard that they are trustworthy.
Then gun control to prevent mass shootings will be a viable option.
I'm an Australian, and I'm going by what our government is. The U.S. is a much larger country, and the police force needs to be scaled up to fight against the gangs and drug lords as well as the cartels.There's no limit on active officers so that's covered, it now falls on people joining...second, response time, police are a reaction force, very rarely do they prevent a crime from happening...The only place I've heard of this corruption argument is on the net, nowhere else...and I'm not kidding. If the police were to adopt a militaristic approach to engaging such incidents...If I recall correctly, police are told to consider the life of everyone involved...including the shooter, in my opinion that's an issue...he should not even be a consideration. Response time is all depended on how fast the word gets to the dispatch, it does no one any good if word isn't traveling up the chain. I keep suggesting that schools, airports, and other vital facilities be equipped with some sort of panic button that alerts every first responder agency under the sun.
My 2 cents so far, there's more to come eventually...