Even in this country you're allowed to shoot people on your property if their posing a direct threat. The only limit is that the force must be 'reasonable'. And the national zeitgeist with regard to firearms is so massively different due to the State facing a full-blown armed insurrection right after founding . Disarming the populace was a necessity to keep the whole lot flying.
The military is small. Cops are unnarmed. Farmers might have a pest-control shotgun. Works for us.
Military police are a bigger threat than an armed population, but an armed population only entrenches the need for military-style police and tends to escalate an action before it even begins. How many people have been shot by police because of a mistake? A mobile phone?
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The military is small. Cops are unnarmed. Farmers might have a pest-control shotgun. Works for us.
Military police are a bigger threat than an armed population, but an armed population only entrenches the need for military-style police and tends to escalate an action before it even begins. How many people have been shot by police because of a mistake? A mobile phone?
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?