Blue lives don't matter more than anyone else. That's the problem. The police supporters decry anyone who questions even the most egregious acts of violence by the Police as cop haters. The truth is that every single life should matter, but they don't.
Now, you can run around screaming at people for the perception of what they believe, and I'm not talking about the handful of fringe idiots. I'm talking about the majorities. Unless you would like to be defined by the most outrageous and irrational folks who are on the same side of an issue or two as you are.
Every single life is supposed to matter. Taking a life should be the most extreme answer to any problem. It may be necessary, but it is never a good thing. It should be the last resort, not the first step. But taking life has become common, and is done casually. Who cares is the usual question.
Now, IF we can be honest, then we can admit there is no war on police. I know there isn't, and you should too. Because with more than three hundred million people in this nation, and about three million cops, the war would last about a week. The cops would lose. Even if you argue that one tenth of those who don't support the police would attack then the numbers still come out that the police are outnumbered about ten to one.
Ten fairly crappy fighters can and do beat the shit out of a really good fighter. As we used to say in the Army during the Cold War, quantity has a quality all it's own.
But the idea of a war on police works into the political arguments of those who want to see order at any and all costs. Those who want minorities to shut up and die also support the argument on a war on cops.
Death isn't a joke. Not when anyone dies. Not when the cop dies, nor when the cop kills, nor when the person is a victim of random street violence, nor because of disease, or accident. Speaking for me, and I honestly believe most people, we don't want to see anyone die.