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I like how you all are talking about this, when the number of people killed by police each year is in the hundreds, while the number of people who are assaulted
by jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago
I like how you all are talking about this, when the number of people killed by police each year is in the hundreds, while the number of people who are assaulted every year by random strangers is in the hundreds of thousands.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoI find the concept of being killed by someone who was allowed to do that more offensive than the concept of being killed, much less assaulted, by someone who wasn't. Neither is a realistic threat. On the other hand, we can easily change what's allowed.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y ago>neither is a realistic threat tell that to the 450,000 women raped every year?
- dragonwriter 4y agoNot sure why you are comparing police killings to non-police assaults, except to make sure that the comparison is as irrelevant as possible.
- jsiaajdsdaa 4y agoSolely because the data you are suggesting (very wrongly) doesn't exist. Anyway, the point is you are way more likely to be a victim of rape/burglary in your own home than you are to be killed by police anywhere, for any reason. The previous poster was making it seem like dealing with this edge case is very important, meanwhile is happens somewhere around 1k-10k times less frequently than the situation I presented.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoYou're also more likely to be a victim of rape in your own home than you are to be injured by a table saw. Should table saws include any safety mechanisms?