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Originally Posted by 4X4
Is it really all that hard to understand why the police are wary of the American public when half of them have guns?
That wasn't supposed to sound like a retort, because I agree with you. I'm just saying that Americans have a more complicated problem than trigger-happy cops. It's a symptom of the much bigger gun problem.
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Oh, the gun culture in the US is also a massive part of the problem. That said--a whole lot of these police brutality cases are involving unarmed civilians. Beyond a shift in gun culture (which sadly is going to be very hard fought), our police forces need to be better trained. For all the money they're bringing in with all the seizures, you think they could afford to train their officers better.
There are a lot of times I wish I lived in another country for all of these reasons.