I wouldn’t work as a cop in this country without a gun.

99% of police work does not require a gun. You don’t need a gun to sit on an overpass radaring cars, to show up 8 hours late to a burglary to take a note about what items were stolen to then immediately lose it, to harass homeowners about their lawn or the volume knob position in their stereo, to write a ticket and leave it on someone’s parked car… Nothing of that vein requires a gun, and every time guns are added to that mix, someone fucking dies. The cops responded to a kid having an autistic meltdown with a small knife on his hands on his family’s lawn, and the cops literally dumped 3 mags into him FROM OVER A FENCE HE COULDN’T JUMP CAUSE HE WAS SITTING ON THE FLOOR. European countries DO have a subsect of police that is heavily armed AND HEAVILY TRAINED to deal with actual shooting incidents, but they’re only called when absolutely necessary.

Violence and physical power trump everything else, which is why we need people who are allowed to use force on our behalf so that we can run our societies based on rules and not who is the best at violence.

No. You build a better society through cooperation. This is literally about making the state the best at violence so everyone complies. Hard fucking pass, lib.

“Abolish the police” is essentially shorthand for ending the current institution. Community policing IS the ideal goal.

Cops kill people directly, doctors usually don’t. That’s the difference. My comparison between cops and mass shooters was about how many people they kill directly. Doctors don’t usually murder people.

Lots of people want medical practice to be changed. If you’re fat, a woman, a POC, a trans person, or neurodivergent, you’d know why a lot of those people just don’t fucking trust doctors at all.

A straight up lie.

Look up Tamir Rice.

Virtually all societies have improved their police over the short and long term.

Rread this article about how the police works internally by an ex-officer. There is nothing that can be done at this point to reform the American police other than a complete do-over.

implying cops are more deadly than mass shooters, context is important.

Context doesn’t bring dead people back to life. Reducing higher numbers of dead to a “per capita” statistic is straight up lying to dismiss the pain of communities destroyed by police violence.

Put a kid in front of a cop, they’ll shoot them 0.00001% of the time

Unless they’re black and holding something, on which case it becomes 100%.

makes people interested in police reform look ridiculous.

You cannot reform the police. If you heard what they say about civilians in a daily basis you’d be demanding all of their heads on pikes like everyone who wants ICE to be abolished and every agent trialed for crimes against humanity.

What I meant with that is that all the gun control push to ban AR-15s because they’re used in active shooter incidents from liberals is bullshit because there is a much bigger problem of police violence in America that suburban liberals refuse to address because they benefit from it.

Also, you posting an AI overview immediately makes me think you’re posting in bad faith.

This is about both of those as a collective, not per capita. The context is pretty clear here.

Not at all. This article with a spreadsheet by Mother Jones show that there’s been about 1128 mass shooting deaths in the US since 1982, using active shooter incident data. And this paper by The Lancer estimates about 30800 deaths by the police since 1982 until 2019. Adding the data from Wikipedia for police killings from the last few years (2019-2026) gives us about 38028 people killed by the American police since 1982, so I was a little off. Even so, taking all that into account, police in america is 33 times deadlier than mass shooters.

Wake up to reality, kid. Your pigs are worse than people who go to schools to kill children because they’re omegasuicidal.

Let’s get some stats, shall we?

Since 1982, in the US, about 1130 people have died from mass shootings.

American police in that same amount of time has killed over 38000 people.

The problem has never been AR-15s, or the lack of background checks, or anything of the sort. It’s always been the pigs. But liberal suburbans enjoy the benefits of the pigs protecting their property while they kill poorer people, so telling them this makes them stare blankly, or they double down and continue to whine about weapons of war, to which I say: If you’re so concerned with weapons of war being in the streets, why does every law banning AR-15s add exemptions to the police?

Back when I played Call of Duty Ghosts, I was kinda obsessed with Salamence thanks to using a Salamence during my first playthrough of any Pokémon game ever, that being Pokémon Sapphire on an emulator. So I made that my username. But I also got angry on that game a LOT, so I extended it to RagingSalamence. But then people started calling me Raging so I kinda disliked that and inverted it to SalamenceFury. Around the time I also started participating on the pokémon askblog community on Tumblr, so I made a pokémon sona to go with all of that, and changed my internet alias to be Sal.

Still going with this username and the previous iteration since then, but also sometimes I go with “DraconicSalad”.

Humans spent thousands of years without rulers. Also, look at all the grassroots organizations trying to stop fascism in America right now.

Leaders are dispensable AND disposable. We do not need them.

You know that anarchism doesn’t mean no rules right? It just means no rulers, but that’s not how it works on Lemmy or any social media of this type for that matter.

I actually posted about that like ten days ago LMAO

The woes of having English as a second language lol

Turns out that having an explosion and air expulsion from the same explosion right in your temple is not conductive to safety.

LOL shouldn’t have put all of your eggs in the basket of delusional billionaires who genuinely think their text prediction algorithm is sentient!!

I would say Stoat, but right now they’re getting hit with the mega hug of death and it usually takes a few hours for the email confirmation to show up, and every time I saw it I was too busy to see it before it expired.

I think the Irish just collectively fainted at this picture.

You did not watch any of the movies if that’s your takeway. Iron Man 1 has Tony stop selling weapons, investing all of his money into clean energy, solving every war in the Middle East, and he kills a rich corrupt CEO.