• Arcadeep@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Absolutely not denying that it’s a problem, just trying to provide context to the idea that everyone in the US will shoot you just for existing or that bullets are just constantly whizzing through the air at all hours.

    I’ve had guns pointed at me as well, and funnily enough, more have been from jumpy pigs than from regular people

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Not everyone, but there is a strange mix of gangsters and rednecks that will absolutely kill you over nothing.

      I have had more people pull guns on me than officers and I would rather it be an officer any day over a road rager or a drug addict.

      Having said that, there is definitely something to the nervous with a tool officer pulling their gun out in fear that is very unsettling. Also, it is always your fault if an officer shoots, even when it is clearly not your fault. I really hate that.