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buzzothefuzzo t1_jed686t wrote

Reply to comment by dogsledonice in We’re Washington Post journalists who spent the past months investigating how the AR-15 became a symbol of the gun control debate, political identity and mass shootings. Ask us anything. by washingtonpost

sure would've helped the effort to counter the attack in uvalde if the police actually you know... did their jobs... they have body armor, high powered, automatic guns, with standard capacity clips allowing them to hold more ammo than many US citizens can. why didn't they use them??

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dogsledonice t1_jedange wrote

Because they were facing military-style weaponry, which is my point

For all the "good guys with a gun" rhetoric you folks spout, they seem to disappear mighty fast when faced with a bad guy with a semi-auto

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triit t1_jeezix7 wrote

You obviously didn't see the body cam footage from Nashville...

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dogsledonice t1_jeftxi2 wrote

Oh? How is that germane to how the Uvalde police responded?

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