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Originally Posted by thefr0g Guards know the risk when they take the job. Its what they are paid and trained for. They are also given weapons to aid them against such a thing happening. |
So knowing the risk negates responsibility?? Strange. Usually people take Correctional jobs because there is not much else in the way of good jobs that they are qualified for in thier area. They may know the risk but are you willing to field the responsibility when they get killed because you feel we should detain barbaric murderers forever??
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Its not war. I've grown up with cops, I've worked with cops, my family is cops, and they don't consider themselves soldiers. There are no armies, there is no organization. They arrest shoplifters, they arrest murderers, they arrest gangbangers and prostitutes. It is not war, it is a job in which they took. It is a choice they made, and unlike a soldier in a war, they can leave any time they want. As for the little boy, you're singing the same song to me that I was singing to you about innocent death row inmates. What is the difference?
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No armies?? So when riot cops are called out in force because of a huge public display they are not an army?? I got stuck in a riot in downtown San Jose Ca. due to the stupidity of a huge group of skinheads back in 1987 and it seemed like I was in a war zone. In interviews the officers said it felt like a war against thier own citizens.
Gang warfare is a known problem in areas like LA and New York and the police fight them in order to stem them. That is war. Fighting criminal behaviour is a war. Perhaps not a traditional war but a war none the less. Those in jail are the ones captured and detained.
So the little boy and an innocent man on death row are the same?? I would think the barbaric murder of a little boy would far outwiegh a mistake on a police departments part. Plus you are the one advocating the life of a man capable of murdering children. Could you live with yourself were that man to escape((not unheard of)) and kill again--- or kill in jail??
I would not have to because I advocate taking that man out and having him shot like the rabid dog that he is. Perhaps if it was your child that was murdered you would sing a different tune.