So in light of the recent events in Dallas (I just in a suburb of Dallas) , at this point I have become very cynical in asking one disturbing question - 'so when is the next shooting after this' - also , has the race war begun?

I am sure just like before, things will die down for a bit - calm will return, until the next shooting, because lets face it it is not if the next shooting will happen, it is when. Sad.

I still also want to know how more guns at this point would have saved lives, since these terrorists were pretty much military trained, and the way this attack was executed obviously not even law enforcement had a chance in hell in defending/returning fire. Military style assault, bullet proof vests and flack jackets.

Also it is argued which I am now for, rather than against, if the police does look like a military personnel, fine, because these attackers had military style guns and training. The police didn't, and they just had handguns. Sorry but the argument at this point that the police has become too militarised is nonsense, just like open carry and every other argument for and against guns.

One person who turned himself in clearly did have a firearm on his person, fat lot good it would have done him anyways, since clearly the police were also outmatched and outgunned.


So, what now?

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Thanks, now does anyone have any useful insight?

I see another bad example of mass hysteria fueled up by unreflected news consumption.

In my opinion some policemen shooting people in a country as big and as piled up in guns as the USA is something very common.

My interpretation of some 'shooting of blacks by policemen': The Police are fearful. Plain simple. Additionally policemen get a negative attitude towards each of their customers and whole humanity, because they are always faced with the problematic characters.

All of that leads to tensions.


One swallow does not a summer make. If some traumatised people overreact, we need to ask why are they traumatised?

If five or 20 policemen are shot, that is not a reason for the police to walk around armed as military. Than they will be seen as occupators and they themselves will feel like in a combat zone.

That is the ground that real trouble and real riots will build up from.

It is no good if 50 policemen are shot dead. But if millions will start to feel threatened by police walking around like military, that is when actual troubles start.

Actually if really a large number of policemen is shot, I am not talking about 5 in as big a country as the US, then you must ask yourselves: why is your civilisation piling up guns in every corner?

Of course you will have a civil war, because if you have guns you will manipulate yourselves to use them.

Obama is right with the problem of guns. But I wonder if your people will be able to count one and one together. I don't think so.

Terrorists or Freedom fighters ?

Well, Freedom fighters, that would imply that majority of the police force are evil.

I am not certain about USA, but I guess that the majority of the police over there too are trying to get work done. And we need Police, don't we?

I disagree
it implies that a section of the population feel oppressed and that taking up arms is now the only solution
it seems perfectly reasonable according to their constitution
the NRA must be proud

Well, I probably will get flack for this then but as far as I am concerned if the police on a day-to-day basis have to face such dangers AND they are outgunned, well I am all for them getting better equipment. I don't give a crap if all of the sudden they have boots, a helmet and such; it would have not come to this if law enforcement were given the tools necessary to keep up. After all, you have offenders with assuault style arms, and now even military training. It is quite possible that now that there are probably those who went to get military training, are part of gangs... Hyperbole/panic? I don't think so.


This is the problem of the US in general with such a gun culture, and unfortunately its always the wrong people that get a hold of such high powered weapons. Not really a fight, if the police just have a standard issue 9mm (if even that) - and an armed assailant has either an AK-47, AR-15, or some other assault style weapon like they did in Dallas.

I also say that this was terrorism, because they used their military purposes for an ambush style attack.

And I still want to know though how having more civilians armed would have prevented this type of attack, since I am sure the NRA would keep beating the same drum, with their dumbass solution for 'lets arm everyone, to shoot the bad guys.'

As long as there are 25-year olds who somehow believe that their personal misgivings are justification to murder, we will continue to need law-enforcement officers who are willing to "lay down their lives for their friends" ... and to put a bomb into the hands of a willing robot, in a cunningly-resourceful(!) way to solve their immediate problem.

Unfortunately, there is no amount of "armament," no amount of "para-militarism," that can "defend us" against someone who has, himself, no regard for human life.

But, we must never stoop to his level.

Never.

That I can agree with, but I am still siding with the cops; and they are right in needing to have better equipment. Again, at this point bringing a hand gun to a shoot out when your opponent has the upper hand via assault rifle.......Well then there needs to be some kind of para military equipment to counter that. After all, we have a SWAT team, but if things get this bad, the cops should be able to have the option to respond with something other than just a hand gun or shot gun. Just saying.

I say Freedom fighters avenging the deaths of their brothers
like this one
http://www.dw.com/en/police-shooting...age/a-19385225

The law would say different; as far as I am concerned I am still siding with the cops. If they have grievances this is not the way to do it. I do not deny police brutality, but actions like this I am not sympathetic to their cause, they can go to hell. I am only sorry that they were not taken alive.

So you have millions of police officers in the USA, and because 10 get shot by assault rifle you want to do what? Equip police cars with 500.000 assault rifles, hand grenades, grenade launchers? Do you want to send police out in 100.000 armoured reconnaissance vehicles instead of cars? Or what are you trying to say?

No, just the first part is fine thanks. Like I stated, it isn't much of a fight when a law enforcement only has a hand gun, and they are facing someone with an assault rifle to begin with. If better arming a police officer all of the sudden means militarization, I don't see how that is because it is just simple logic, at this point. You are facing assailants with better weapons then what you have, a hand gun isn't going to cut it.

isnt any kind of fight when armed police shoot a black guy without a weapon in his hand
is just murder
how many blacks have to die like this before they are justified shooting back
according to US constitution they are perfectly justified