http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/more-discipline-for-seal-in-afghanistan-than-swat-officer-in-fairfax/

10/15/2010 12:18:34 PM

Bizarre huh? We have more restrictions on killing people who likely want to kill us than we do on people who don't want to kill us.

Did the liberals do this? And if so, why not the same treatment for law enforcers?

10/15/2010 1:06:14 PM

'Did the liberals do this?'

What the fuck is wrong with you?

10/15/2010 1:25:46 PM

It's an honest question dude, liberals are the ones that think the world is a happy place where no one fights and everyone talks.

10/15/2010 2:48:26 PM

Really good article, it's an excellent example of why anecdotal evidence is so useless, you can do just like they did and take average case A and compare it with extreme case B.

10/15/2010 3:49:34 PM

so which one is average and which is extreme?

10/15/2010 4:14:55 PM

^bingo.

10/15/2010 4:40:56 PM

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"It's an honest question dude, liberals are the ones that think the world is a happy place where no one fights and everyone talks."

Best example of fucking up is/ought I've seen

Even worse than the liberals this guy imagines lol

10/15/2010 11:23:29 PM

we want a world without war or violence or greed or hatred of the Other

we sure as hell don't think that's what we have

10/15/2010 11:26:59 PM

greed is eternal

10/15/2010 11:31:08 PM

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"so which one is average and which is extreme?"

Casualty of war versus an accidental gun going off in a freak incident, I know which I see more in the news, SEE HOW I CAN USE ANECDOTES TO PROVE ANYTHING?

10/16/2010 2:23:44 AM

There are hundreds of these "freak incidents" every year, fortunately not all of them result in deaths. No knock raids and the overuse of SWAT teams in general are a huge, huge problem.

Weapons pretty much never go off accidentally, in order for a gun to fire you have to pull the trigger. At minimum this guy was guilty of manslaughter or negligent homicide. Shitty trigger control and unnecessary use of force resulted in a death. The resulting punishment... 3 weeks paid leave. How is that not cause for concern, especially when that kind of punishment is the norm, not the exception?

Yes, this is one anecdote, but plenty of research is out there verifying the point of this particular anecdote. Open your eyes and look at what is going on with police departments in this country. It's not isolated to major metro departments or small town hick sheriffs. There is corruption, incompetence, and abuse of authority on a nationwide scale.

10/16/2010 8:41:29 AM

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"How is that not cause for concern, especially when that kind of punishment is the norm, not the exception?"

If you had proof of that then you would have a point, but you don't, thus your anecdotes are meaningless.

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"but plenty of research is out there verifying the point of this particular anecdote"

Then post that and not the anecdote. I'm betting it doesn't exist.

10/16/2010 10:34:48 AM