[Mr. Jeeves]

The widely hated Chinese local police (chengguan) usually carry no guns but use these long sticks with bow-shaped ends to pin assailants in place. They won't stop a shooter. but a couple of cops could have handled the Atlanta incident with them.

Perhaps police in general should be restricted to using non-lethal force - and when lethal force is required armed citizens - a city militia - should step in to settle the situation. Reorder the priorities to put the citizen at the top - and simultaneously frighten 80% of progressives out of politics entirely,

[ROCKLOBSTER]

How about a bolas and a net gun?

[mdmathis6]

Could have but those “sticks” weren’t available nor would they have had the training and they still could have been shot by a tazer...which still can cause death or heart arrhythmias.

The cops used what they had per policy...

Maybe you can go down to Atlanta and get on the Police re-organization board!

[ripnbang]

A city militia. What could possibly go wrong? And these people are going to do this out of the goodness of their hearts? Take on that liability? Will they be trained, or just come as you are? Or, you’re suggesting immunity from any bad decisions? Or suspensions of all courts? Who pays for this protection? Just want to know the ground rules...or if there are any.

[CodeToad]

So you think in a lethal force situation were fractions of seconds count a ‘militia’ member will be at the ready??