(September 26, 2016 at 1:18 pm)abaris Wrote:(September 26, 2016 at 1:13 pm)RobertE Wrote: You need to separate the American mentality of being brought up with guns and the European mentality.
No, I don't need to seperate the two, since, having had relatives there, I used to travel there since the early 70ies. The mentality isn't that different. Police training however has changed radically, as so many other things, during the last 15 years.
They weren't as trigger happy before. And, on a side note, I guess the number of white, black, Latino or Asian minors playing with guns will be about equal, since they are all boys. Seems to me the black kid is the only one having been handed the letal ass end. Otherwise we would have heard.
Don't you hope that one day both the police and the citizens will be able to walk around without the need for weapons? It will never happen, but it would be nice, knowing that cops won't be able to take out lives, and the people can finally talk through their problems, instead of bringing the issue to a head by using a gun. As for the view of the police, they have changed and are unrecognisable from the days of this particular series:
