See, this is the kind of thing that leaves me thinking that gun control advocates just don’t get it. Eric Garner was choked to death on camera for resisting the police. Anthony Hill was gunned down for running toward police while fully naked. If you think that police violence can be solved by individually addressing each possible bullshit excuse cops have for committing murder, you will end us in a society where we cannot wear hoodies and buy skittles. Because anything which could possibly be interpreted as the hint of a threat will be used by cops as justification for murder.
I’m sure this sounds reasonable from a distance. But asking people who are under immediate threat from law enforcement to give up a self-defense resource, in the hopes that later on this could make it more politically palatable to disarm the cops too…surely you can see how this comes across?
To make a pretty unfounded guess, I imagine that actually you just don’t believe that widespread gun ownership prevents police abuse. You believe that things like laws and policies and oversight boards prevent police abuse. I also guess that this is because you haven’t dealt much with the immediate prospect of police violence in your community and your own life, but have instead considered both gun control and police violence as abstract political questions. I could be wrong, though.
