RE: Apparently I need to hope I don't ever get robbed according to gun nuts
June 13, 2016 at 2:42 pm
(June 13, 2016 at 2:34 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote:(June 13, 2016 at 2:15 pm)Losty Wrote: How is it fair to concern yourself with the proportion when one group is at war and the other is not?
Well I made a few statements about things I don't like so I wasn't sure which you meant. I always report police officers to POST if I think they're doing something they shouldn't. I always vote for politicians I feel can/will make a difference. I have protested in the past when I local boy was found rolled up in a gym mat and the police ruled it an accidental death.
Things do need to change. The problem is that getting any real change will require that people whose family members have been wronged or killed by the police need to go to the Supreme Court with their cases. I don't think we have as big of a police brutality issue as the media wants us to believe. I certainly don't think it's as bad a Mini likes to suggest. But when it does happen something should be done about it.
"How is it fair...?" Well there's this thing called "a sense of proportion". If the numbers are way out of proportion there that's indicator. For instance, if 10% of the troops in Iraq were shot and we compared that to 1,183/300,000,00th of the public in the US what would we notice?
Of course it's a smaller proportion. But one group is at war. War. O_o
