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With all the talk about gun control, I am one among many asking, how about police control? How about taking military equipment away from the police? How about the fact that way more people are killed by cops with guns than random dudes with guns in the U.S.?

And Monique Judge of The Root makes a very good and related point.

If You So Scared, Why Are You the Police? 

Why are ordinary citizens, who do not have the training that police officers go through, expected to handle these high-stress situations and act calmly and rationally when the police aren’t? How does that make any sense?

It's a short piece but so important. It really drives the point home.

If you're so scared, why are you police?

Why are you the police?

Why are you the police?