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From Salon, “With gun nuts hoarding bullets, will cops be disarmed?” (*) (* Yes please.) “But what those rushing to stockpile guns and ammo seem to miss is that their actions have consequences on the people [police] whose job it is to keep us safe. . . .” http://www.salon.com/2013/03/27/cops_are_running_out_of_bullets_thank_the_nra/ I have no real idea what “those rushing to stockpile guns and ammo” think about or don’t think about. Maybe if you want to know that, you could ask some, instead of spending the entire article interviewing cops. But I do know that many of us would be much safer if police had no bullets at all. Did police bullets keep Kimani Gray safe? Emma Hernandez? Angel Alvarez? Alonzo Heyward? Sean Bell? Amadou Diallo? Who seriously believes that “keep[ing] us safe” is what police do? Who’s the “us” they have in mind when they think that?