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Originally Posted by Meph  their life ( which by the way is usually there to provide financial support for their families, not that you care you are in support of protecting criminals rather than police officers) due to people acting stupid.  |
I won't address the parts of your reply that put words in my mouth and/or that are illogical for any number of reasons (
i.e., the bulk of it), but I will address the above quoted material (except for the saracstic
) because it was something I considered adding to my latter point about which is better, dead cops or dead civilians (fyi, they're not criminals, shady or otherwise, just because they did something a cop didn't like or felt threatened by), but decided to leave out for clarity's sake.
Even without reforms holding cops accountable for shooting in the situations we're discussing, I support having a
lot more support provided to wounded cops and their families and the families of cops killed in the line of duty. And with the enactment of reforms clearly placing the risk in those situations on the cops, as I'm suggesting any moral, free society should do, such support would be absolutly necessary. I'm not talking about nickle and dime stuff that politicians talk up and that ulitmately amounts to jack
... I'm talking about complete public support for life for officers and their spouses, and for their kids through college. Paying for it would even be easy: we just take the money from useless welfare and civillian gun-control programs
I have no qualms paying people well to do a dangerous job, and taking care of them and theirs when that job results in harm or death--I do have a problem with letting a select group of government actors avoid accountability for "self defense" that would be labled trigger-happy murder were I or anyone else to engage in it when we felt threatened.