When I was little it was completely normal for kids to fuck around the neighborhood with toy guns. Cap guns, water guns, whatever. And we "shot" each other and random people with them. This was even before they started putting bright orange barrels on everything.
And you know what happened? Nothing. Nobody freaked out. Nobody called the police. Nobody died. Kids being kids. Times sure have changed.
Maybe, maybe not. The problem that skews this thought is you didn't have 24/7 news coverage shoved in your face from tv and social media. You wouldn't know if it were happening unless it was local to your town or it gained national coverage.
Fair point. I'm also white so.. yeah
news coverage? you think that's the reason for cops being trigger happy? no, it's worse, way, way, worse.
go look up "killology" a fucked ideology that is mandatory teaching is most of america's police departments, whose focus is that everyone is an existential threat, and the police "sheepdogs" wage an unending war against the evil "wolves" hiding in the innocent and stupid populace "sheep", and that you should in pursuit of purging the "wolves in sheep's clothing" not be afraid to kill, in fact it's encouraged
When I was little it was completely normal for kids to fuck around the neighborhood with toy guns. Cap guns, water guns, whatever. And we "shot" each other and random people with them. This was even before they started putting bright orange barrels on everything.
And you know what happened? Nothing. Nobody freaked out. Nobody called the police. Nobody died. Kids being kids. Times sure have changed.
Maybe, maybe not. The problem that skews this thought is you didn't have 24/7 news coverage shoved in your face from tv and social media. You wouldn't know if it were happening unless it was local to your town or it gained national coverage.
Fair point. I'm also white so.. yeah
news coverage? you think that's the reason for cops being trigger happy? no, it's worse, way, way, worse.
go look up "killology" a fucked ideology that is mandatory teaching is most of america's police departments, whose focus is that everyone is an existential threat, and the police "sheepdogs" wage an unending war against the evil "wolves" hiding in the innocent and stupid populace "sheep", and that you should in pursuit of purging the "wolves in sheep's clothing" not be afraid to kill, in fact it's encouraged