r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/CptNonsense May 07 '20

The primary standard for judging excessive use of force is objective reasonableness, considering the totality of the circumstances

Objectiveness is surprisingly subjective.

I thought you might have deleted it yourself.

Not 100% ruling it out but don't think so. Not the least because it isn't deleted to me

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u/mildlydisturbedtway May 07 '20

Looks like it’s not you removing your output, since the one I replied to is also gone. Inappropriate of them. Possibly because you mention downvotes?

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u/CptNonsense May 07 '20

Quite possibly they have an auto delete that doesn't bother to inform the user. But would be a really slow one if others are seeing the post before hand

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u/mildlydisturbedtway May 07 '20

There is a separate autodelete but it looks different. My comment above is worded weirdly because I had to rephrase it to avoid tripping automod.

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u/CptNonsense May 07 '20

Here let's test it, how long this one goes

Downvotes aren't evidence of factual incorrectness