Fucking exactly this. We have levels of corruption, inequality, poverty, etc on par with countries like Brazil but our violence stats are compared with countries like Norway.
Nobody should be okay with taking away personal defense options when every day we see corrupt, inept, and abusive police officers with guns that we should apparently depend on instead of ourselves with guns. It’s absurd.
Body cams are gonna go a ways toward annoying the shit bags, as well as exonerating the good ones from some of the spurious shit.
But arming everyone is going to fix none of the problems with cops as they are now. You draw on a cop and you get alllll the gun-toting pros after you real fast if you live long enough. That’s not a solution. Asshole cop or not, the response to anything - unless it’s your compliance - is an escalation. That makes bad cops worse and maybe you dead, and those are the opposite of our goals.
Fucking exactly this. We have levels of corruption, inequality, poverty, etc on par with countries like Brazil but our violence stats are compared with countries like Norway.
Nobody should be okay with taking away personal defense options when every day we see corrupt, inept, and abusive police officers with guns that we should apparently depend on instead of ourselves with guns. It’s absurd.
There’s two things wrong with American cops.
Rejecting cops who test as shit bags
Supporting cops who test as not shit bags
Body cams are gonna go a ways toward annoying the shit bags, as well as exonerating the good ones from some of the spurious shit.
But arming everyone is going to fix none of the problems with cops as they are now. You draw on a cop and you get alllll the gun-toting pros after you real fast if you live long enough. That’s not a solution. Asshole cop or not, the response to anything - unless it’s your compliance - is an escalation. That makes bad cops worse and maybe you dead, and those are the opposite of our goals.