>We have always lived in a society with lots of guns.
No we didn't (lot's of guns maybe -- the police using them like this, no).
In the times of the "Old West" maybe, but from what I've read and watched, police didn't behave that way up until after the 50s and 60s, this "Rambo/Dirty Harry" shit started sometime in the late 70s-80s, along with "Zero Tolerance" and other stupid ideas...
And of course sending something like a SWAT team for BS micro-offences like we read today was unheard of.
>Both sides need to calm the fuck down.
Both the police and the innocent getting shot or targeted?
No we didn't (lot's of guns maybe -- the police using them like this, no).
In the times of the "Old West" maybe, but from what I've read and watched, police didn't behave that way up until after the 50s and 60s, this "Rambo/Dirty Harry" shit started sometime in the late 70s-80s, along with "Zero Tolerance" and other stupid ideas...
And of course sending something like a SWAT team for BS micro-offences like we read today was unheard of.
>Both sides need to calm the fuck down.
Both the police and the innocent getting shot or targeted?