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I understand the reasoning and can see where you're coming from, but I disagree - I think we'd just see the same situation we do with alcohol where those old enough to buy it supply it to their...

They said lowering the drinking age was going to do that, and they were as obviously wrong about that one too :wtfsmilie:

I was told a story by one cop about losing his in a scuffle. IIRC he was called out to a domestic at a known gang house, went onto the property armed 'for insurance' but got blindsided by a couple of...

Unless I missed something it does confirm that he's been in the police force since he was a teenager without doing anything else (unless you count a couple of holidays), so I'm not sure what Tahr was...

Got a link to that story? I already went to their website to learn about his background and all I found was that he has been a cop for 37 years.

Or so they can be taken off them by criminals who surprise them with a smack to back of the head, or so they can overreact to a stressful situation and shoot someone when it could have been...

My comments above were not attacking him as a person, just speculating as to possible reasons why his ideas seem so detached from reality to many of us.

His policies and ideas have been debated...

Maybe having been a cop for so long (and apparently a political desk cop insulated from the public for a lot of that) has given him a particularly bad case of a 'them and us' mentality, thinking...

Maybe I should have made that clearer - I get the impression he's pushing his own personal agenda regardless of whether or not it actually reprents the people in his union.

I don't know if undermining public respect for the people you represent is really being a good advocate? Just another agenda-pushing wannabe politician in my books.