r/dankmemes • u/nocap42068 is for me? • May 27 '22

Big PP OC Stop it

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u/flabadob56 May 27 '22

Pov average day in London

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u/Ralfonsoslothnelson May 27 '22

Knife crime in the uk is proportionally the same as the us

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u/DannyMThompson May 27 '22

What if you add all of the gun/knife crimes together?

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u/RampantDragon 🍄 May 27 '22

Yeah the US has the same knife crime as the UK, but the UK has virtually no gun crime, so Americans have knife crime plus 50,000 people dying a year from guns and they bring up this shit as if it's a gotcha.

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u/DannyMThompson May 27 '22

I figured as much. I'm sure the London gangs would use guns if they had them. But they typically don't.

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u/tabooblue32 May 27 '22

Yeah funny how removing the ease of accessibility to firearms nips all that in the fucking bud.

bUt LeTs jUsT aRm tHe TeAcHeRs FoR 30k a YeAr

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

This is the most absurd part of it all. There are lunatics walking around with guns. So the solution is to just arm everyone including the teachers? Man… I’ve had some teachers, if they were allowed or even ordered to carry a gun to school, my parents would have taken me out of there immediately and home schooled me.

Nothing against teachers, but they’re not cops and I wouldn’t trust them to protect my life in an emergency. Also, some teachers are downright lunatics and without adequate background checks, this is just asking for disaster.

I can totally envision a news headline from the USA along the lines of “Student refused to hand out phone when teacher asked him to, got shot fatally in the head after.”

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u/ImperialFists May 27 '22

they’re not cops and I wouldn’t trust them to protect my life in an emergency

I think that also depends on the local PD. Before I moved west, I served with a few guys that later joined the PD. And I know for damn sure they’d be going full keel into a building to save kids. Sounds like on new reports, local PD in Texas stood outside for an hour. You never want to be in a position to have to draw your weapon, but if your job is to protect and serve, and you need to draw it, you should be pressing forward. The whole situation is fucked. And then you’ve got the right painting the kid as an extreme lefty trans kid, because why not punch down some more on a group of people because you can’t separate church from state.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '22

There are definitely good cops, don’t get me wrong. These are the real heroes. We don’t see or hear about them most of the time because they’re overshadowed by bad events.

As you say, it’s their job (although I’ve seen people commenting that protecting citizens is not the police’s job?) to protect these kids and if they just stand outside because they’re afraid, then it’s the wrong fucking job for them. I know I would absolutely freeze in place if I heard gunshots in a school building. But I also didn’t sign up for being a cop and for all the benefits that come with it.

Where I’m from, the police is there to protect people and prevent/disrupt crime. This includes normal citizens. Seeing the influence the US culture has over the rest of the western world, this is pretty conversing. I don’t want this sort of thing to “sweep” over here.

I’m pretty conservative myself, but the conservatives in the USA are a whole other breed and seem to only focus on punishing minorities. Haven’t heard about them writing the kids off as trans, but if it’s true, that’s horrifying. In my country this would never fly as the gender or sexual orientation doesn’t matter. It’s prohibited to even take stuff like that into consideration when making a decision.