All lovers of power have historically channeled the people’s hatred against something (the “proletariat” against the rich, working-class Germans against the Jews, and so on) to seize more power. The left is using this tactic today against the police.
Way to go obama and holder — This is your mess.
You two are responsible for this, hope you sleep well at night.
Black youth shooting at police, that should end well.
There are millions of Americans who happen to be black who are not part of any war on cops.
It only takes a very small team to stir up trouble.
Trouble is being stirred up.
Always for a purpose.
Oddly enough, I see a very different outcome to this.
In the 1970s, radicals assassinated some police officers, and the response was a truly bad idea, to retrain police officers with “S.W.A.T” tactics, and they must be more aggressive, and “take control” at all times, and “dominate” events.
Frequently this involved brandishing handguns at every opportunity. It also involved a LOT more violence against, and by police.
Fortunately, the Taser was invented and was embraced by many police, because it gave them far more options than the use of a gun, whose utility is very limited.
Then the next problem struck: anabolic steroids.
For a time, according to the FBI and DEA, the abuse of these drugs was becoming a major problem in police departments around the US. And their common side effect of uncontrollable rages by users resulting in unprovoked violence.
And then yet another problem: the paramilitarization of police, funded with property and money seizures in the War on Drugs. Having police *behaving* like paramilitaries was not enough. Now they were being *equipped* like paramilitaries, with military gear and equipment.
So what the NAACP and others are calling for now is, in effect, a “reaction” to this.
Yet, while they are agitating for violence, and encouraging violence, there may be an entirely different and unexpected outcome.
Less violence.
It has to do with the very nature of the 2nd Amendment and of guns.
It is counter-intuitive to imagine that more guns equal less violence, but that is certainly the case in gun liberty states. And even though this is not what the agitators *want*, the more black people who are legally armed, *especially* the more who are trained to use guns properly, the *less* they are likely to use them for crime.
Remember also, that the vast majority of crime by blacks is against blacks. Unarmed blacks. If a black criminal cannot carry out criminal acts against other blacks without fear they can shoot him, the degree of difficulty of committing his crime skyrockets.
So the first result in armed the black community is that their crime rate goes *down*. But what about their interactions with police? Fewer crimes, fewer police calls.
And when the police *are* called, they gradually feel less threatened, so are less inclined to overreact.
Until a black man running away from them gets the same response as if a white man is running away from them.
Blacks killing in the cities are the main fuel of the anti-second amendment urban animals.
Either black criminals go to prison, or if they stay out, everyone loses freedom in name of their crime and the danger they present to police state authorities.
The Authorities are the only thing protecting the parasites from the wrath of the host. Let them make war on their protector. Doesn’t bother me in the least.