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I really don't get why people don't start shooting police. As I understand it guns are allowed to "defend yourself against the government". Police is the government and they clearly are out of control shooting people.
So either use your weapons against the government or make guns illegal if you don't use them anyway.
So in the end there are less cops which in return means less people shot dead by cops or cops are less scared because people don't have guns and so they also don't get shot by cops.
What I am saying is: either use your guns or make them illegal if you don't use them anyway.
The problem is escalation. You fire your shots in self defence, they back off an extra 50' and call in a "shots fired, officer needs assistance" call and suddenly 4 APCs, 20 cruisers and 2 helicopters are surrounding you. Cue sounds of 50 cal freedom suppressors being fired. And because you shot at them even though by the time its all over your body looks like a pile of spaghetti the shooting will be justified with barely a hearing involved.