Most of the arguments against the police are off base.

1000 x this. Doctors can get screwed in so many different directions if they cause any type of harm - fatal, non-fatal, or in matters of billing. Billing. And we’re allowing cops who have killed people for not nearly a good enough reason to keep their jobs. We do not value life in this country.

I don’t have a problem with any of that. Unlike the people who run this country I’ve actually been to places outside the country and I’ve seen people enjoy things like universal health care and other things that are paid for by a healthy tax rate. So I don’t have a problem paying for those things out of taxes.…

You ALWAYS make excuses. Not some times, not often. ALWAYS. You have never ever commented in an article about these type of shootings where you haven’t made excuses for police behavior. You act like people don’t fucking remember otehr shit you wronte.

How the fuck do you protect children by shooting at their mother with no regard to where the children are in the house? Endangering them with a spare bullet doesn’t protect someone from a mother with a knife in her hand which you don’t know what the fuck was the deal with it since people tend to use knives in their…

That sounds like an extremely accurate breakdown, and I get that “people make mistakes” in every profession.

2. Second Largest Group - The Former Military. These people could come from the first group, but they spent time in the Military for a while and now seek the “structure” of being a cop or firefighter.

I agree with you - hell, most of the people I know who have guns have them legally - and they are usually either the last people I think should have a gun, or they have them for what I consider to be the wrong reasons. But right now that’s not the way that it is, and I didn’t want to get into the 2nd Amendment while…

I don’t think we should be allowing every Tom, Dick, and Harry to be armed either. The 2nd amendment is obsolete and unnecessary and needs to be gotten rid of. I’m saying snatch the fucking guns, eliminate the 2nd amendment, and disarm the police. 

I agree with most of what you’re saying, and as the son of a former police officer, I can tell you that training used to emphasize keeping your cool, using your head and deescalating over drawing your weapon at the drop of a hat. I’ve said this a few times in a few different posts - in the 60+ combined years that my…

Oh, and liability insurance. If doctors have to carry it why not cops? Cops are given power over life and death.

I wish I could upvote this more than once..

I’m not even sure if I’d limit the problem to there rather generous limits on what disqualifies someone from being a cop. I think the entire system is fucked.

The thing about “science,” unlike “faith” or “just making shit up,” is the results are out there for others to CHALLENGE. If the methods are crap, data is made up, or what have you... then it won’t stand the test of time (unlike the bit about Noah’s ark, or Creation, or any of the other crap that Religion passes of as…

USA Today needs to get their shit straight. They label LDL Cholesterol as “bad” and that it’s a cause of heart disease. This is false (partially). Small particle sized LDL is pro inflammatory and can lead to cardio vascular issues, yes. But, saturated fats such Coconut Oil are excellent and promote large particle…

Without science you wouldnt be typing that.

Science is perfectly fine, thanks. It’s the scientifically illiterate writers and “journalists” who parrot PR pieces or misinterpret (willfully or not) regurgitated abstracts to sell papers/magazines/views that are the real problem.

Let me tell you a story of a vacation and a pain management issue. Last month (March) I spent a week with my husband and two of our friends in a gorgeous villa in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. At the time — and still, though it’s since been re-diagnosed thanks to an MRI — I was having severe and chronic pain. I live in…

Walks through security with no weed, thinking about how sad it is that some dirty dirty addict might try to bring weed to their destination. Sits at airport bar, drinks three beers, takes anxiety medication before walking up to gate, orders a gin and tonic or five while flying. Still feels superior to those dirty…