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How come White people are never accidentally shot by Police?

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I like the fact that cops here carry glocks. If a person wants to commit a bad enough crime, then they must know that cops mean business.
 
Sea Moose said:
I like the fact that cops here carry glocks. If a person wants to commit a bad enough crime, then they must know that cops mean business.
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Our cops carry tasers and have access to pistols and shotguns when they need them, but they don't carry them on hand (they don't need to - our crims dont have guns either). We also have our Armed Offenders Squad for when shit gets out of hand (my brother in law is a former member of AOS)

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Ohhh i like the pic!

Is NZ gun free?

Aus has a dwindling gun tradition. Pretty hard to get one these days. I am thinking about getting pistol licence.

THe thing is tho, being a cop in England Sucks. I know several, and they all say the same thing. Take away the gun and unfortunately you take away the respect. I hope nz doesnt go the same way.
 
amdhunter said:
Three hispanic guys driving their Honda were stopped by an officer wildly screaming at them, and then one of them shot while trying to duck from the gun being pointed at him. (This was mentioned on a newscast on TV.)

Nothing will be done to the officer, who acted in compliance with duty.

http://www.newsday.com/news/cops-officer-shoots-man-during-huntington-traffic-stop-1.1694884



How come it's always a minority in these kinds of cases? For those of you that will inevitably cry about the occupants being unruly -- let's see how you react to some officer screaming and pointing a gun at you when you have done nothing.
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Hoe come it`s people like you asking such isiotic quesations and not having all the facts before making a moron out of himself??
 
SunSamurai said:
Keep telling yourself that.
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Myself what? That cops aren't the only people in NZ with guns? You're welcome to peruse our firearms laws if you'd like, I can assure you that although I don't personally own a gun, I know several people that do and I've been shooting a number of times. I'm not really interested in your little pissing contest with my brother and I am extremely disinterested in this whole "NZ versus USA" thing that him and yourself have been engaged in in the past couple of weeks. I was simply correcting your factually incorrect statement.
 
Sea Moose said:
Yes we do, and frankly, you can keep your melting pot of society.
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Indeed, and to each his own. Yet Im simply explaining that we cannot have a bubble society. In actuality, most of the world cannot have that, because it DOESNT WORK OUTSIDE YOUR BUBBLE.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
Myself what? That cops aren't the only people in NZ with guns? You're welcome to peruse our firearms laws if you'd like, I can assure you that although I don't personally own a gun, I know several people that do and I've been shooting a number of times. I'm not really interested in your little pissing contest with my brother and I am extremely disinterested in this whole "NZ versus USA" thing that him and yourself have been engaged in in the past couple of weeks. I was simply correcting your factually incorrect statement.
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Actually he is the one going off about Americans this and that long before many of us started to defend it, and that didnt work so we have to speak his language. Frankly I think NZ is beautiful, but the inhabitants are douchbags. <- See what I did thar? Its me generalizing to make a point.

Tibes cannot have a system like towns, nor can towns like cities nor cities like etc etc. What works for NZ cannot work for a country like America.
 
SunSamurai said:
Actually he is the one going off about Americans this and that long before many of us started to defend it, and that didnt work so we have to speak his language. Frankly I think NZ is beautiful, but the inhabitants are douchbags. <- See what I did thar? Its me generalizing to make a point.

Tibes cannot have a system like towns, nor can towns like cities nor cities like etc etc. What works for NZ cannot work for a country like America.
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I never accused you of starting it, I'm aware that he instigates most of the animosity between US users and the odd Kiwi here. I was just saying I genuinely don't want to get in the middle of it and don't care about that argument. Just wanted to clarify that people can and do in fact own guns here.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
I never accused you of starting it, I'm aware that he instigates most of the animosity between US users and the odd Kiwi here. I was just saying I genuinely don't want to get in the middle of it and don't care about that argument. Just wanted to clarify that people can and do in fact own guns here.
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My mistake for confusing you with him then.
 
SunSamurai said:
Irony is you thinking Americans are under some police state when the only people allowed guns in your country are the cops. They must have some tasty koolaid in NZ! :awe:
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Please tell me where I said police are the only ones who are allowed guns? Anybody can get a gun, but they're carefully controlled. Hence we don't have a proliferation of guns, and there is not a lot of illegal gun ownership here.
 
Mike Gayner said:
Please tell me where I said police are the only ones who are allowed guns? Anybody can get a gun, but they're carefully controlled. Hence we don't have a proliferation of guns, and there is not a lot of illegal gun ownership here.
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Same in Australia. Not many illegal guns about.
 
This thread is now about New Zealand sucking.

Previously about fat Indians.

Previously previously about crackers getting shot.

Coming soon: Dead babies. Stay tuned.
 
mjrpes3 said:
Right......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act

"From 1994 through 2008, 1.8 million attempted firearm purchases were blocked by the Brady background check system. For checks done by the FBI in 2008, felons accounted for 56 percent of denials and fugitives from justice accounted for 13 percent of denials[18]. In April 2009, the FBI announced it had completed its 100 millionth NICS approval since its inception 10 years before"
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Not many gun rights activists want the removal of background checks.

Try again.
 
LOL, how anyone living in a metro area can rant about minorities being targeted is a fool.

I'm in LA, and I'm the token white guy at work...
 
amdhunter said:
Three hispanic guys driving their Honda were stopped by an officer wildly screaming at them, and then one of them shot while trying to duck from the gun being pointed at him. (This was mentioned on a newscast on TV.)

Nothing will be done to the officer, who acted in compliance with duty.

http://www.newsday.com/news/cops-officer-shoots-man-during-huntington-traffic-stop-1.1694884



How come it's always a minority in these kinds of cases? For those of you that will inevitably cry about the occupants being unruly -- let's see how you react to some officer screaming and pointing a gun at you when you have done nothing.
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I'm not going to read through all the replies so this may have been said before, but if a cop is pointing a gun at you you do what he says, otherwise you'll get shot. It doesn't matter what color you are.
You usually only hear about cases like this with "minorities" because it's easy to play the race card. Watch Cops some time and you'll see how many crack head white people get the shaft by cops too, but no one cares, because their white.
 
nick1985 said:
Not many gun rights activists want the removal of background checks.

Try again.
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That doesn't change the fact that requiring background checks on the purchase of guns is a form of gun control: it restricts access to guns. Either admit that some forms of gun control are good or be more specific with what you mean by gun control (this is a tech forum with a broad audience, not a gun forum where "gun control" can be more strictly defined).

Here's a question for you: are you for or against closing the loophole of selling guns without a background check at trade shows and by independent sellers?
 
jlee said:
Do you have a reputable source with actual numbers? I'm pretty sure they're not smuggling legal automatic weapons and grenade launchers (from the US) into Mexico...but I'm pretty sure they have them down there.
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From the GAO.

JohnOfSheffield said:
Yet almost every single "illegal" gun in the US has at one point been legally purchased.
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Almost certainly. However, I'm talking about a scenario where the supply of firearms in the US dries up because of a strict tightening of laws per MikeGayner. In this case, guns would be flowing into the US.

Smuggling into the US would be a hell of a lot harder than it would be smuggling something into most other first world nations considering how adamant you are about checking every cargo and you have the strictest border control apart from Israel that i have ever had the misfortune to have to go through.
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Come on, you're smarter than this. Do you know what the US/Mexico border looks like? They're sure as hell getting people and drugs in and money back out. Do you think it would be that hard to get guns in? Really? Across this?
 
Because white people know how to act when we are pulled over by the cops. (in general) That hispanic guy seems like he flipped a shit and he was probably already acting shady to begin with. Body language tells alot to cops about how ready they are to use force, so if you are giving off bad vibes and then suddenly flip a shit, yeah, you can get shot.
 
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