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[Brian37]

Yes.  That you're much more likely to get shot by a cop than you are to be threatened by an axe-wielding maniac intent on dismembering you.  Maybe you're the one that worrying about the wrong thing.

Boru

You are more likely to be shot by a cop during an encounter.  Cops (in the US) nearly always have a loaded gun close at hand.  The rest of the population does not.  So, from that angle the argument makes sense.

You are more likely to encounter 'not a cop' in going about your daily business then you are having an encounter with a cop.

This is true.

But my point is, if we want less firearm violence, and we don't want cops to fear blacks, or white rural people to fear cops(government tyranny), I think the better option to make both cops and society safer, is to stop letting one industry pit the races and zip codes and cops all against each other.


The corporations who make firearms love the mistrust between races and cops. More fear, more violence more firearm sales. And this is literally true. Gun sales spike after events like this. 

But while one does not run into police every day, police should not have to fear getting shot at every traffic stop and blacks should not have to fear dying during an interaction. It still remains on average, that blacks are at more risk of injury or death when interacting with police than whites.

Our climate of mistrust and fear is due to the marketing of the corporations just like car companies shit their pants when Nader told them they had a problem. Just like Big Tobacco sold fear to maintain it's profits. Just like big Oil still today sells fear of change and regulations to maintain it's profits.

If we want blacks and whites and cops all to get along and not fear each other, and we all want less violence, then just like two parents who's child is pitting one against the other, all zip codes, urban, suburban and rural need to recognize the real enemy, greed.