Posted on 09/15/2018 4:15:28 PM PDT by Rummyfan
“What would happen,” asks The Week columnist Matthew Walther in a Sept. 13 piece, “if American police officers carried whistles instead of guns?” He muses further: “Would the country descend instantly into a chaos of looting, arson, and mass murder? Or would we just go on with our lives, commuting to jobs, raising children, watching sports, whatever — the same routine, albeit with a little bit less of the low-key anxiety that comes with seeing cops with weapons?”
I invite you to read Mr. Walther’s entire piece, but be warned you might take it as a parody. Consider the following:
The best argument against what I am suggesting is, of course, that a heavily armed police force is necessary because ours is a heavily armed citizenry. But police do not routinely carry weapons in Iceland, which has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in Europe. It is easy for sociologists to argue that this arrangement is successful because Iceland is a “small, homogeneous, egalitarian, and tightly knit society.” Could it be that it is somewhat easier to be homogeneous, egalitarian, and tightly knit when the most common representatives of the state's authority are not wagging lethal weapons in your face? The mind reels.
Iceland. Is your mind reeling? Mine is.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Easy answer: Iceland is considerably more moral than most democrat voters (er, armed democrat felons).
And anybody in Iceland considerably more moral than all of the democrat politicians and ABCNNBCBS writers and commentators!
Iceland isn’t “diverse”. That saves lives.
Was the assailant one of Ms Pelosi’s 13 sons?
There is active looting in Florence’s wake, with the police given orders by the chief to stand down.
No video at the link...This is a much better link to that incident depicted in the image.
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=uAvlx_1536593947
She was way too relaxed in a traffic stop with a known gang member and violent felon.
She’s lucky the male cop on the passenger side was as quick as lightening and ended the ordeal with a head shot and one additional round for good measure.
Iceland is 94% white.
Agreed! 1st thing I noticed, she gave control away from the beginning.
Simple things like, let me see your hands. Your Hands, let me see them now!
While I was distressed to see the perp shoot her, I was extremely to learn the outcome of the encounter.
The trash was taken out. How dare he shoot a police officer?
God bless our men and women in blue. They risk their lives daily to keep a fragile peace. AMEN.
She is very lucky to be alive. Maybe a school teaching position would suit her better.
P.S. Matthew Walther can stick it up his nether region.
I once knew a Charlie Walther,(NJ) who was a total asshole.
Could this jerk be his spawn?
Yep, the suspect in the video was basically dead before he hit the ground. The male cop was 100% ready for what was about to unfold.
Do London police carry weapons now? They didn’t when I was stationed there.
I’d like to drop Mr. Walther off at 1:30 p.m. in the senseless murder district and give him a whistle to blow for protection. What’s amazing to me is someone as stupid as the author of that column could even hold a job.
Damn, she called for her own ambulance and probably had to tourniquet her leg too. Her partner ‘you ok?” Smh
It’s like the people who try & compare Finland’s school system to the US. Homogenous society, parenting, etc.
What an idiot!
Icelanders are ethnically NOT diverse. They do not have the violence and uncivilized behavior of the USA.
The level of crime is very low.
He has it backwards like all idiot liberals.
Exactly. The homogeneity of the population ensures that crime stats are minimal. There will be outliers naturally, but overall everyone works toward upholding the cultural norms.
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