Oh, I’m in favor of removing cops toys too. And crushing police unions, and removing qualified immunity.

But it turns out that yeah, when you have large groups of heavily armed citizens, that cops do, in fact, dial back their violence.

The most well equipped place force in the world seems to be scared of school shooters. They may have equipment but they have no real training outside of “everyone wants to kill you, here’s how you can get away with killing them”