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Canada investigating how Skyrim username mixup sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
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This why we need the 2nd.
Wrong country. We don't do that up here. Overall, we find this results in fewer unnecessarily dead people.
Let's say he'd had a gun, and used it against the police. He would just have gotten hit with an additional charge that could have been anything from resisting arrest to first-degree murder, depending on how good a shot he was. So he'd still be in prison even after being proven innocent of the original charge. Real smart.
Or maybe if you had the 2nd they wouldn't be so quick to arrest the wrong guy ad actually did their fucking job and investigated... No no that to lofty of a concept in canada...
The 2nd protects the 1st and you don't have free speech.
You do realist that "I am innocent, armed and will shoot if you try to arrest me" is possibly the worst conceivable way to avoid being unlawfully arrested, right?
There is quite literally nothing you could do to make it more certain that you will be either killed or arrested than trying to shoot your way out of being wrongly arrested.
I hope you also realise that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and has a long and proud history of arresting and/or executing the wrong people. Literally any other system than the one you're advocating for is provably superior when it comes to preventing the wrong people from being arrested.