(As a general concept of how a society should run, not intended as a US-specific question.)

I sometimes see people on the internet saying that giving people easy access to guns is too risky and there should be stricter gun control, while simultaneously wanting to abolish the police? I’m just confused on what people really want?

You cant both abolish the police and then also disarm the citizens, gotta pick one. So which is it, internet? Self-policing with guns? Or reform the police?

[Please state what country you’re in]

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(Also its funny how the far-right of the US is both pro-gun and pro-police, I’m confused by that as well)

  • Semester3383@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    US here.

    I think that if the police are allowed to have it, everyone should be allowed to have it. Police are not the military; they’re civilians. So all other civilians should have the same access cops get, or cops should get the same access that everyone else does.

    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      12 hours ago

      I don’t think that police are technically considered civillians, although they are under civilian control (of the governor/mayor).

      • Semester3383@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        6 hours ago

        They are absolutely civilians, although they no longer believe they are. Technically the military is supposed to be under civilian control as well (e.g., the governor is supposed to have control of the national guard in their state, the president is supposed to control the six branches of the military).

        Look at it this way: the military is not supposed to be used for civilian law enforcement. That very, very strongly implies that police are not military, and are hence civilian.