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<blockquote data-quote="SLW" data-source="post: 4834460" data-attributes="member: 77893">I&#039;ve always been fascinated by and generally in favor of this part of Hunter S. Thompson&#039;s platform when he ran for Sheriff:&quot;The Sheriff and his Deputies should never be armed in public. Every urban riot, shoot-out and blood-bath (involving guns) in recent memory has been set off by some trigger-happy cop in a fear frenzy . . . Under normal circumstances a pistol-grip Mace-bomb, such as the MK-V made by Gen. Ordnance, is more than enough to quickly wilt any violence-problem that is likely to emerge . . . Andanything the MK-V can&#039;t handle would require reinforcements anyway . . . in which case the response would be geared at all times to Massive Retaliation: a brutal attack with guns, bombs, pepper-foggers, wolverines and all other weapons deemed necessary to restore the civic peace. The whole notion of disarming the police is to *lower* the level of violence--while guaranteeing, at the same time, a terrible punishment to anyone stupid enough to attempt violence on an un-armed cop.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SLW, post: 4834460, member: 77893"] I've always been fascinated by and generally in favor of this part of Hunter S. Thompson's platform when he ran for Sheriff: "The Sheriff and his Deputies should never be armed in public. Every urban riot, shoot-out and blood-bath (involving guns) in recent memory has been set off by some trigger-happy cop in a fear frenzy . . . Under normal circumstances a pistol-grip Mace-bomb, such as the MK-V made by Gen. Ordnance, is more than enough to quickly wilt any violence-problem that is likely to emerge . . . And anything the MK-V can't handle would require reinforcements anyway . . . in which case the response would be geared at all times to Massive Retaliation: a brutal attack with guns, bombs, pepper-foggers, wolverines and all other weapons deemed necessary to restore the civic peace. The whole notion of disarming the police is to *lower* the level of violence--while guaranteeing, at the same time, a terrible punishment to anyone stupid enough to attempt violence on an un-armed cop." [/QUOTE]

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