neuromancerPolice use victims’ rights law to hide from scrutiny
CaptObviousIt’s honestly scary to live in a police state where they view the rest of society as enemies. I notice this on my uni campus: Our police department urge faculty and staff to view students as threats to be managed and to assume that anyone could become a mass murderer at any time. It’s disgusting.
As a non-American, it’s hard not to see the guns laws as the biggest issues.
The police act as if everyone is armed, because most are, and everyone else is scared of the police because if they panic they might shoot you.
Where I live, the cops also act like assholes, but I have never been worried they would pull a gun on me.
Most people are not armed in the US. And cop isn’t even in the top ten most dangerous job. They act like everyone is armed because they’re indoctrinated to see everyone as an enemy (and get off on violence).
snooggumsThe most dangerous part of police work is driving.
It’s not that most people are actually walking around armed, it’s that literally anyone could be armed.
Over here we have all heard stories of the calm, relaxed dad, mid 50s who coaches little league and is a nice guy who wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then he gets pulled over one day and calmly speaks to the police officer then calmly proceeds to shoot the officer dead and drive off.
You can then imagine any football fan with a small penis and an even smaller brain getting all pissed off because his team lost and going off to shoot the other team’s fans.
I could go on but the point is literally anyone could be armed and that’s bad for all of us, in many ways. Police are not the only people worried about pissing off the wrong person. Anyone can be armed. We get treated like a threat by police, well anyone can be armed.
I got into an argument in Australia when someone nearly hit me with their car and I was only worried about being punched. It would have hurt but it makes the confrontation feel less traumatic in my memory than any argument I’ve had back home. I’ve worried about dangerous situations when overseas, but overall I feel so much safer in other countries where I don’t have worry that I’ll get a gun pulled on me in traffic or at the grocery store or when interacting with police.
They aren’t gun “laws.” The right to keep and bear arms is one of the highest rights enumerated in our Constitution. Laws can’t change that. And there isn’t likely to be any constitutional amendment proposed, much less ratified, in the foreseeable future.
The problem, as @[email protected] notes, is that our police are indoctrinated into an extremist viewpoint that makes them a far more dangerous group than anyone else in our society.
Your constitution is just another law.
No constitution is “just another law.” Rather it sets the government’s structure and limitations as well as creating the boundaries for actual laws.