I think people are getting a bit fed up having their property destroyed for no reason.
Then maybe they should reform their racist police departments... that would fix the problem.
Frankly, it's fairly unlikely my property would be damaged by a protestor, but I'm getting pretty sick and tired of paying taxes to settle "whoopsies" from Officer McShooty...
Chicago paid out 118 MILLION in settling police misconduct claims in 2018. Who gets to pay for that?
Nobody is being held hostage by “gun nuts”.
Really? Every workplace has a security gate to slow down active shooters. We teach our kids how to hide during a school shooting. We arm our police like soldiers and have to worry about them panicking. I went to a movie a few years ago, and they had an instructional film on what to do if an active shooter decides he's a film critic (this was shortly after Aurora). Every night, we hear about so many people killed and so many people wounded.
That you're such a cowardly ***** that the idea of an actual human being having the capability of defending himself against whatever crime you wish to commit against him is your problem, not that of any actual human beings.
Dude I was in the army for 11 years. I fired enough guns for five lifetimes, thank you very much.
The problem is, every year we have 200 self-defense homicides by civilians, and 43,000 gun deaths. The cure is a lot worse than the disease.
Let me put it in a way that even a Mormon would understand.
You buy a dog for protection, but the dog has never chased away a burglar. It has bitten you, bitten your spouse, and bitten your kids. It's also attacked the neighbors kids, and your insurance company is not happy about paying out those big old settlements. At that point, you'd probably take Killer to the pound and put him down, and tell the kids he went to go live with a nice farm family.
Well, this is what your gun culture is costing us.
271 Billion in economic losses
43,000 gun deaths
70,000 gun injuries
400,000 gun crimes
militarized cops who shoot 1000 civilians a year. (by comparison, most other G-7 nations have less than 20 police involved homicides per year)