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Your fault looked like a gun Cops fault just candy bar
Debate Score:18
Arguments:10
Total Votes:18
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 Your fault looked like a gun (10)
 
 Cops fault just candy bar (4)

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If you pull a candy bar like it's a gun & get shot, cops' fault or your fault?

Your fault looked like a gun

Side Score: 11
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Cops fault just candy bar

Side Score: 7
1 point

When you literally have only a split second to react to what appears to be a potential life threatening situation your survival instinct kicks in and eclipses all other considerations including training in the use of a lethal weapon so you act spontaneously and without due deliberation.

Too many police have been killed (over 250 so far this year) as a result of hesitating to respond intuitively to potentially mortal circumstances.

Side: Your fault looked like a gun
1 point

Do you have a permit to carry a concealed chocolate gun?

I think police have the benefit of doubt when shoot defending themselves in front of a possible danger against their integrity. This is not a situation favoring to police only but also to anyone in the same situation.

The one carrying the chocolate gun won't aim against a police officer without expecting to have no reaction from the authority.

Side: Your fault looked like a gun
1 point

It's all too easy to be an armchair super hero, prosecutor, judge and jury.

When patrolling the crime ridden streets of our towns and cities where the value of life is considered by THE FILTH to be less than the price of their next fix police officers will be in a heightened state of edginess.

Although their anxiety levels will vary in intensity from officer to officer the common denominator is that their self-preservation instincts will dominate all other emotions.

Anyone who pulls a real or mock-up of a firearm and points it towards a police officer deserves whatever they get.

I challenge the sanctimonious virtue signallers to don a police uniform and and take a stroll through, let's say East Harlem.

Side: Your fault looked like a gun
excon(18261) Disputed
1 point

police officers will be in a heightened state of edginess.

Hello N:

Yes they will, and THAT cop is gonna shoot somebody.. I want my cops to be unflappable. If a cop can be manipulated by the events around him, instead of manipulating the event himself, he shouldn't BE a cop..

Look.. It's HARD to be a cop, but it's the job they signed up for..

excon

Side: Cops fault just candy bar
Norwich(1576) Disputed
1 point

In a perfect world your comments would be acceptable.

But we don't live in a perfect world and, like every human being on planet earth cops the world over are not perfect.

Your expectations to be policed by a force of emotionless, impassive law enforcers won't happen until we have developed A I to such an advanced stage that robotic cops can be entrusted to replace their mere mortal human predecessors.

But then we enter into another world where A I endowed robotic criminals will become the number one public enemies.

In the meantime we will have to accept that some of those who have dedicated their lives to protecting the citizens of the communities in which they live may be overcome by their HUMAN EMOTIONS.

Some of our more self-righteous citizens will deem that such officers fall short of the unrealistic standards of perfection which they themselves never have, nor ever will achieve.

What you claim to be demanding is a perfect police force.

Well, be advised that you're going to be disappointed as whilst excellence is achievable in most regards, perfection in anyone or anything is not.

Side: Your fault looked like a gun
BrontoLite(759) Disputed
1 point

Look.. It's HARD to be a cop, but it's the job they signed up for..

Probably why I trust them as a general rule more than the average leftist who's not signing up for any job where dying might be involved, eh Con?

Speaking of job they signed up for, doesn't the left whine on incessantly that people working crap jobs don't get enough? Mmmhmmm. They are. But we just worked it out magically right here just now. It's the job they signed up for, eh Con?

Side: Your fault looked like a gun
1 point

If you pull a candy bar like it's a gun & get shot, cops' fault or your fault?

Hello:

ANYTIME an unarmed civilian gets shot by a cop, it's the cops fault. Period, end of story.

Truth is, I want MY modern day gunslingers to OUTDRAW the bad guys, and NEVER shoot a guy with a candy bar. If you CAN'T do that, it's time to hang up your spurs.

excon

Side: Cops fault just candy bar
LordSauron(332) Disputed
1 point

ANYTIME an unarmed civilian gets shot by a cop, it's the cops fault. Period, end of story.

So if the assailant pulls out a toy gun, the cops should quickly realize it's fake and not shoot. I'd love to see you be a cop. You'd be a dead cop.

Side: Your fault looked like a gun
Impo(13) Disputed
1 point

Truth is, I want MY modern day gunslingers to OUTDRAW the bad guys, and NEVER shoot a guy with a candy bar. If you CAN'T do that, it's time to hang up your spurs.

You want for only cops to have guns and not the common man. Hope they don't assume we're all pulling guns seeing that you disarmed us all under your position's policy.

Side: Your fault looked like a gun