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tshaddox on Dec 16, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: If a Drone Strike Hit an American Wedding We'd Gro...

I don't see why the author thinks we would ground our fleet. Police routinely and deliberately kill innocent people in the US, and we don't "ground our police force."

acjohnson55 on Dec 16, 2013 [–]

We might, if the police stormed a wedding and killed over a dozen people.

tshaddox on Dec 16, 2013 | [–]

I think you're being naive about what police in the US can do with very little resistance or punishment (especially internal). Remember things like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_State_killings http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege

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