Friday, 11 August 2017

The racial unrest of 1967 led directly to the militarization of local police forces today

quote [ With Vietnam on the brain, departments across America armed up ]

Woop-woop! That's the sound of da police!
[SFW] [dystopian violence] [+4 Sad]
[by ScoobySnacks@5:42amGMT]

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norok said @ 3:40pm GMT on 11th Aug [Score:-3 Bad]
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mechanical contrivance said @ 3:53pm GMT on 11th Aug
One of the reasons American cops need to be well armed is that the civilians are well armed. Guns are a lot less common in Europe and Japan.
norok said @ 4:03pm GMT on 11th Aug
A fair point. In Japan's case we got the write the laws of our new protectorate conquest and wouldn't want them getting out of line again. In both cases they had a whole generation or more of their most conflict inclined males wiped out.
mechanical contrivance said @ 4:39pm GMT on 11th Aug
That brings up an interesting thought. Conflict inclined males have been getting wiped out for tens of thousands of years, maybe hundreds of thousands. We're still a conflict inclined species, though.
norok said @ 5:49pm GMT on 11th Aug
There's only so much that can be inflicted with swords marching on foot. Not like industrial warfare.
mechanical contrivance said @ 6:13pm GMT on 11th Aug
True, fewer soldiers died in battle a thousand years ago, but populations were also a lot smaller to begin with.
HoZay said @ 5:53pm GMT on 11th Aug
We'd be lots more violent if our ancestors weren't so warlike. ;)
mechanical contrivance said @ 6:11pm GMT on 11th Aug
It's a self correcting problem, fortunately.
lilmookieesquire said @ 2:07am GMT on 23rd May
The gun thing was taken care of before the occupation.
raphael_the_turtle said @ 7:31pm GMT on 11th Aug
Resource inequality + weapons + class war = conflict regardless of diversity.
norok said @ 11:40pm GMT on 11th Aug [Score:-4]
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lilmookieesquire said @ 2:06am GMT on 23rd May [Score:-2]
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norok said[1] @ 6:07pm GMT on 24th May [Score:-3 Boring]
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lilmookieesquire said @ 12:50am GMT on 26th May [Score:-3]
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whitepower1488 said @ 11:32am GMT on 12th Aug [Score:-5 Troll]
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