> This is literally the exact scenario pro-gun people argue you need a gun for.
Yes, and they're wrong. That's exactly the stupidity I was talking about. This "shoot first, ask questions later", and more deeply, the fact that everyone acts as if they're in a stupid police tv series, is an attitude shared by both sides.
Now that I think about it, "what you see in movies is a silly exaggeration" vs "that's a perfectly plausible depiction of reality" could be one of the deep cultural differences between Europe and the US. Maybe because the fact that most action movies are made in the US creates in Europeans a healthy sense of detachment. As if the foreign setting provided a way to firmly place the narration in the realm of fiction.
oh I agree with you entirely, but the fact that pro-2nd-amendment nutters (the idea that there isn't an established militia in the US is clearly absurd) are pro-police in cases like this is what makes me particularly mad, and why I brought it up.
Yes, and they're wrong. That's exactly the stupidity I was talking about. This "shoot first, ask questions later", and more deeply, the fact that everyone acts as if they're in a stupid police tv series, is an attitude shared by both sides.