03-15-2018, 12:15 PM
(03-14-2018, 06:30 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(03-14-2018, 01:57 PM)David Horn Wrote:(03-13-2018, 05:55 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Everyone with a gun is a potential good guy who could save your life.
This is a gun-culture meme that doesn't hold up to scrutiny. If it did, the NRA wouldn't be dead set against data collection on the subject. More to the point, the US is still alone as a gun culture and unique in the amount of gun violence. I believe that many of the police shootings that been the direct result of cops approaching situations where the potential for guns being drawn makes them jumpy. That's no excuse, just an observation.
That's a reality that blues seem unable to recognize and accept. The vast majority of gun buyers aren't buying them to murder people. The vast majority of gun owner and gun buyers aren't the type of people who are into murdering people. Why are cops so jumpy? Do you think left wing groups who support spewing hatred of cops, calling cops murderer's and convicting them without due process have anything to do with that?
The mere presence of guns makes every interaction much more fraught with risk. For cops, that's particularly true, since often they aren't interacting with people on the best of terms. I fail to understand why that is so hard to understand. The intention of most gun owners does not apply to ALL gun owners, hence the anxiety. That's just human nature, and not easily overcome. That's also why other countries limit the availability of firearms.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.