Oh wait- I'll be criticized for doing that too.

Hollow points, more advanced weapons, etc. becoming more commercially available have made violent crimes potentially more dangerous.

You realize that school shooting deaths are not synonymous with school shootings, right? I'm sure you do. In any event, you can fear-monger with whatever high-profile school shooting you like (showing that Fox and CNN's business model works) but the fact remains the violent crime rates have been on a historic…

You didn't ask me anything. I asked you if the reporters who were teargassed and/or arrested without charge looked like a mob. Thus far you have declined to answer.

I'm sorry, but that is wholly unresponsive to what I asked you. You appear to be responding to someone else.

But how many school shootings were there over the last couple decades? Have they not increased?

Just to be clear—you believe that those 4800 additional federal crimes were created to "disarm ordinary citizens"?

What military-grade weapons are they responding to in Ferguson?

The Pinkertons predate both.

If you don't think that being a part of a group wearing body armor and masks, carrying a high-powered weapons standing in front of an armored vehicle with a machine gun pointed at a crowd of people will have an effect on how you act, then I'm afraid I have to question your knowledge of how humans work.

Did the reporters who were teargassed and/or arrested without charge look like a mob?

Are you ignoring the fact that crime has become more organized and violent, also?

Do you think the police had any role in escalating the situation from one which was largely peaceful, if very tense, to the present situation?

the government is using literally every excuse they can to disarm ordinary citizens by handing out bullshit felonies as often as possible

I'm not so sure "everyone" thinks that at all.

You're ignoring that when we militarize the police force via equipment, it's going to act like a military force. They aren't separate issues.

Police shouldn't be demonized, but public policy that turns police into quasi-military forces who radically escalate civil unrest should definitely be criticized.

That whooshing sound over your head was the point of the article whizzing right by you.

Dude, you are so hardcore to not consider being struck and killed by a racecar a "violent" death. Everyone here is wildly impressed (and probably more than a little turned on) by just how awful something has to be to impress you.

That fat bitch got millions for hot coffee at Mickey D's. Coffee=hot. That case should've been thrown out.