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Originally Posted by CptSternn
I didn't say anything about Mexico. We are talking about law enforcement here, so nationalities do no come into play.
Either you support police shooting kids for throwing stones, or you do not. The fact you have avoided the question directly and attempted to throw in race and nationality as a factor seems a bit telling.
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You said,
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Originally Posted by CptSternn
I guess the question one has to ask - if this were a child in school living in middle America, would the views on this be different?
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You also suggested that having different reactions to such a scenario "smacks of racism."
Hypocrite.
To answer your question, yes, I do support law enforcement agents defending themselves when assaulted. You want to avoid the idea that a thrown rock (more correctly, a number of thrown rocks) can prove lethal. But this does not change the fact law enforcement agents, when assaulted (and it doesn't matter what is used to assault them), have the right to protect themselves.
It also doesn't change the fact that if the situations were reversed, if it was American kids entering Mexico, assaulting Mexican officers, and being killed for it, that you'd be singing a different tune.