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Why can’t we do both?

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It would take _years_ to get the police to put their house in order. So why not go after swatters as well in the meantime? Most swatters are repeat offenders.

And once the police have cleaned up their act… do you believe former swatters will quietly become law abiding citizens? I don’t. They’ll find some other way to ruin people’s lives, hopefully a less dangerous way.

We could also ask, why do swatters swat in the first place anyway? How could we prevent them from wanting to do such a thing?



>So why not go after swatters as well in the meantime? Most swatters are repeat offenders.

Who said we're not? We already have laws and procedures for that.

It's the abuse of SWAT that we don't really cover well.




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