Firstly I did not mention your religion and you don’t know mine so there’s a hell of a lot of assumptions going on there. Is you know gay people the new I have black/gay friends? I

I don’t think you have to worry about the constitution nor should we be concerned about how your morality is offended. Charles Manson applied for a marriage license with not a word from the morality police. Marriage is a right given to all US citizens including those with a criminal background, murderers, pedophiles,…

When the court made the decision that George W Bush was President and there was no need to count the votes in Florida, that’s legislating from the bench. This was a constitutional legal process that had to come to pass once DOMA was overturned. In fact, even Scalia in his dissent against the DOMA decision predicted…

Your flag symbolizes a past where it was ok to own people. The fact that no one thought that they needed to fly this flag until 1962 as a fuck you to the civil rights movements tells you all you need to know about the true reason people want to see it fly.

It’s not that complex. The flag was raised in 1962 in South Carolina close to 100 years after the war was over. It was not raised because someone suddenly remembered their historical pride. It was raised because negroes were getting uppity in the South. The Civil Rights were happening and someone wanted to put them…

Firstly the flag being flown today is not technically the confederate flag. It’s really the battle flag of North Virginia . Secondly, no one in South Carolina ever thought it needed to be flown until the Civil Rights movement of the 50’s and 60’s. That’s why it was never flown until 1962. That flag that’s flying…

The confederate flag was not raised in South Carolina until 1962 when the civil rights movement was gaining ground. It was bought in as a symbol of the status quo of separate drinking fountains, pools, schools, restaurants etc. It is not a nuanced symbol of anything good except to agitate those getting out of hand. It…

I think you’re being a little dense here. Of course the insults were directed at her. Despite her skin color she’s still hispanic. Whatever disgusting, racist thing they said was directed against her, her family and any member of her community.

Ok I retract you sounding naive because you sound more ignorant than anything. Funny how all the tough guys like yourself live on the internet. You can’t imagine how ‘Average’ that makes you. And while you’re getting hypothetically knifed or shot at, don’t forget to not call the police for help.

The job is risky. Dealing with the public is risky. Dealing with the public who might be committing criminal activities is riskier . Dealing with possibly armed public is even riskier. There’s no 10 step manual that’s going to cover every possible human behavior. You sound incredibly naive.

I agree that police officers are paranoid. But any mental health profession will tell you that that paranoia is what keeps them alive. Their job is not less dangerous than driving a garbage truck. A police officer stops strangers in their cars not knowing whether that person is a nice normal person or someone ready to…

Don’t be an idiot. I’m not saying Sanitation workers and electricians or any other job has risks. I’m saying that when you’re dealing with the public and when you’re dealing with criminals, the fact that you come out alive is not proof that your job is easier. The sanitation worker does not have to get between a…

Yoou’ve proven nothing except rattled off a bunch of statistics. How many of those occupations have someone shooting at them, and missing? How many of those occupations have someone going into domestic fights? Your stats are meaningless. It doesn’t account for how many times police officers defend themselves…

You don’t judge the risk of a job by the mortality rate. The fact that a cop doesn’t die everyday does not mean that the job is not risky, it means they’ve trained to minim to minimize their risk. That’s part of the job. Every time a cop stops someone to question them they’re in danger because they never know if that…