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Cops with guns are going to kill a certain amount of innocent people, no matter how you train them, or conceal the guns. You will never reduce that number to zero. So in the interest of protecting police lives, you're making a choice to sacrifice civilian lives. It's simple math. Despite all...

And then you're risking the lives of civilians to protect the cop who volunteered to place themselves in the line of duty to protect civilians. If they have weapons, the situation is inherently more likely to escalate. Weapons make people feel threatened, and when people feel threatened, we know...

They don't need to carry weapons to have access to weapons. In many countries the police carry no firearms on their person, and they aren't just indiscriminately slaughtered by methed-out homebums with illegal weaponry

I think it's hard to nail down, and hard to fix, because we've got a lot of stuff all kind of combining into the perfect police storm. Like how police unions protect most police from any real consequences of their actions, and how an increasing amount of police are military veterans (no offense)...