>>>> In many of the other jobs, deaths are due to accidents/pure carelessness/acts of nature When cops die, it's much more likely from a criminal act.
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>>Scroll down in Tamar's link to confirm. Taxi drivers followed by Police and then security guards from violence or homicide.
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>>Curiously, it's against the rules in most jurisdictions for taxi drivers to arm themselves. Is that Constitutional?
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>I know (the statistics at the bottom of the page). My point is that a media figure praised by some (Chris Hayes at MSNBC) has repeatedly used the information from the top chart in response to the alleged "exaggeration" of the death risk that cops face.
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>( I will acknowledge that cops die in traffic accidents as well, though again it can be due to illegal behavior from others)
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>I'm certainly concerned when I see video of cops who are truly behaving inappropriately. The political left has a valid point. And even though there wasn't enough to indict the officer in the Michael Brown case, there's still a very serious question about how police are handling this type of conflict.
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> But I'm also concerned about a topic that has not received enough attention - the stand-down order given to Baltimore law enforcement that led to millions of dollars in property destruction. The far political left is promoting a view that arson and openly destroying physical property are not "violence" per se.
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>I think taxi drivers ABSOLUTELY should be able to arm themselves, if they're not able to already.

I wonder in what situation it would be good to arm taxi drivers. Wouldn't you think more taxi drivers would be killed if criminals know that the drivers are armed? Mind you that the criminals would in the back of the taxi and can shoot the taxi driver at any moment leaving the taxi driver without a chance, whether armed or not. Even if the criminals are outside of the taxi, when sitting behind the wheel you're much slower and more limited than a criminal outside of the taxi.

Only if you want more dead taxi drivers you should equip them with guns.