I know this is extremely hot-takey but fuck it All the good liberal Americans who think "Well if there's someone going after someone else with a knife, of course a cop has to open fire" are the reason we got into a disastrous war in Iraq
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"A bad thing is happening! Time for a HERO to come in with lethal force to restore order!" On the large scale or the small this attitude has so much blood on its hands
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I guess this is the obligatory part where I say that yes, I, personally, have been threatened with a knife by someone having a freakout It was highly unpleasant But, you know, having a cop suddenly shoot the person dead in front of me would not have made me any better off
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("Easy for you to say, Arthur, you weren't actually stabbed" Well, sure, I suppose I wasn't killed by a stray bullet from the fourth of four shots being off-target due to recoil either, so)
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Americans have outsourced too much imagination to Hollywood. There are too many moments where we can't fathom anything but the dramatic maximalist position. Gun culture is something that has to be fixed before gun violence will reach tolerable levels.
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There's such little time spent in primary or secondary education in the US on much international exploration, so the very idea of a country in which guns aren't ubiquitous is just not only foreign but sort of unconsidered.But the gun culture is both a non-starter and the ballgame
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