re: #240 Killgore Trout

After years of being outgunned the police departments had to get assault weapons and APC’s.

Which undeniably lead to scenes like the following becoming commonplace:

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Mistakes will always be made. And some techniques that are very effective in some regards produce a lot of mistakes in other regards. It’s like Obdicut said: Does the solution create more problems than the problem it was supposed to fix? That’s not just a legitimate question but a crucial one.

I don’t know the answer in this case (because it’s tied in to a host of other issues like drug and immigration laws), but I know that reflexively cheering for or against government is stupid.