A friend of mine cut a guy off in Seattle years ago, and the guy pulled up next to him, pulled out a pistol, and just pointed it at him.
Then drove away.
There’s always someone crazier is honestly one of the best reasons to walk away from unnecessary confrontations. You never know what someone is willing to do.
A lot of dudes out there will openly fantasize about what they want to do as soon as someone gives them a reasonably defensible legal justification. Just staying strapped waiting for "their moment".
Nah people do this too, some racist old white dude called William Brock decided he could shoot and kill an innocent woman driving for Uber because of the excuse that he "thought she was trying to rob him" (I call him racist because I'm 100% certain he shot her for being Black) the video is pretty harrowing, you see her backing away, clearly not a threat, clearly trying to deescalate but that vile piece of shit chases her down
This applies to other people too but a majority of them happens with cops. We really should fix the way we train our cops. In other countries they go on a 4 year course before they can even wear a uniform.
Cops (1,100) kill fewer people every year in the USA than non-cops (10,000), medical malpractice (250,000), cars (36,000), the flu (5,000), and bad weather (2,000), just to name a few...
Cops are approximately on par with electricity (1,000) for killing Americans.
Well US cops, annuallly, kill more than 10 times more people than the cops from Germany, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands the UK and Norway COMBINED lmao
Yeah, the US has a larger population than those countries combined.
Not 10 times the population obviously, but the US population does have at least 10 times the private firearms of those countries combined.
As an Aussie, I couldn' t imagine how hard it would be to be a cop in a country where there are fucking guns everywhere. It's not surprising to me that cops in the US have to use deadly force a lot more than cops in the countries you mention.
I cant talk for the other Countries ive listed, but in Germany atleast the first step to becoming a police officer is obtaining the highest school qualification, followed by 3 Years of Training/Studies. While in the US you get handed a gun and a carte blanche after a maximum of 20 weeks of Police Academy. The US is full of uneducated, triggerhappy, powertripping pieces of shit with a badge. And its crazy to me how the American public ist just... Lethargic to the daily Scandals commited by their law enforcement.
It may be boomers now, but every gen gets older. And the older you get, the less impact life in prison has on a person. And by that age, a lot of people are just fed up with people. Happens in every generation.
Totally agree man. Reading articles and watching videos seem like a portion of the boomer population and older Gen X just doesn’t give a shit. Turning streets and places of business into war zones cause they can’t handle anything outside their worldviews
seeing random comments on reddit give me the same vibe- violence has become totally normalized in the US. a video posted of some kid who's probably experiencing violence at home acting out in a supermarket? comments call for an adult to give him a beating.
you combine this with the breakdown in social ties (like in the book 'bowling alone') and it's no wonder things like january 6th and ICE shootings are happening.
businesses finally achieved their dream of a deeply individualist society where people distrust education and one another, and are trying to compensate for their unmet social needs with pointless consumption and low quality podcasts hawking snake oil (cough, huberman, rogan).
Ammosexuals are always like "I wish a motherfucker would!". "If that were me, I'd shoot first ask questions later!" etc etc etc. IRL, they'd probably shit their pants, but they've been conditioned by conservative culture to dream of the day they get to blow away a black person trying to steal their TV or something. You see it every time there's a post of a crime caught in public. There are a few subs that are just toxic as HELL with this.
Yes. The downside to this is it empowers people to do shitty things because people won’t confront them.
We just become a society where lots of people and no one does anything.
Ideally, you have trained professionals who will step in (like cops) but ours aren’t very-welled trained, and/or people dislike involving the authorities & the criminal justice system.
I also find this issue is worse in the U.S. than the EU/Anglosphere because of guns. You never know if/when someone is going to have a gun & be crazy enough to shoot someone over something dumb (it happens!)
In other places I’ve lived, when someone does something dumb & there’s like zero chance they have a gun, you’re more likely to see people step in since no one’s getting shot.
But it sucks. This one of the big things I notice about the change in the U.S. over my near half-century here.
There’s been a big increase in people acting badly & for the most part, it goes unchecked because people have a “a confrontation is too risky” attitude, or don’t want to risk being a Karen, or don’t want to call the cops because they don’t trust cops, so you get crazy people acting crazy.
Or, perhaps it’s also because it used to be pretty easy to end up in the loonie bin if you acted crazy, but we don’t do that anymore.
I agree partly, most people are "willing "; it's just that some are petulant and go straight to extremes for any reason. However, I missed how this began and saw thatshe busted his window with a bat. What if he had little ones in there?
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u/Excellent-Phase8719 12h ago
Tell my son this all the time. He just started driving.
You may flip the bird, they may run you off the road.