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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 4868760" data-attributes="member: 22662">Do you think criminals sit around thinking about police tactics before they commit crimes?  Rapists figure out when the cops have a shift change?  News flash for you.  Criminals commit crimes because they don’t believe they will be caught.  They never do.  They never have.  How police respond does not cause the crime nor does it mean the crimes will go unsolved.  We’ve seen crime rise and fall over the decades.  Someday maybe we’ll figure out that “x,y, and z may or may not contribute to an increase (or decrease) in crime rates.”And I think that the mere fact that legally owned and purchased guns shows a spike in all kinds of tensions that indicate a far more likely spike in crimes whether it’s in the form of a drive by killing or a domestic dispute taken to the extreme.</blockquote>