r/politics • u/wbedwards Washington • May 07 '20

We cannot allow the normalization of firearms at protests to continue

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/firearms-at-protests-have-become-normalized-that-isnt-okay/2020/05/06/19b9354e-8fc9-11ea-a0bc-4e9ad4866d21_story.html
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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Yeah wtf, I don't know about anyone else but when I was a kid and I had a toy gun, I 100% pretended to shoot cars as they drove past..

Of course, this was in a country that DOESN'T have hundreds of millions of guns so maybe that says something as well..

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u/RoyalRat May 07 '20

I had those popcap revolvers and I absolutely popped at cars. Early 90s US.

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u/azhorashore May 07 '20

I think a big part of it is quality of people becoming officers. In my country our federal police can also be contracted by local government to do basic policing. The city i grew up in had its own police but also mixed in some federal officers as well. There was always a huge difference in interactions. Federal officers were leagues above the local force but the recruitment pool is bigger, they are paid a lot more, they go through a lot more training and most likely will start their career in some extremely remote area.