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Originally Posted by Rochard
Exactly.
In your country only eight or nine people a year die from firearms. In the US it's thousands. Last year one hundred twenty-one police officers were shot to death, not including those shot and wounded. Because of this.... Police in the US have valid reason to fear being shot. Thus, when ever police come across someone with a hand gun during a confrontation everything gets shut down until everyone has been searched is decided not to be a threat.
If police in the US pull a gun on you and tell you not to move.... You don't move. If you do, you can get shot. When police say "don't move" it does not mean "get out of the car".
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And you don't think that police would be a good place to start the change towards better gun culture? Police is the most controllable group from all the folks who shoot people + a very high profile group.
If campaigns like "It's not cool to shoot people." worked in black ghettos, I guess that police could adopt that policy too. Or even do like people trying to ditch cigaretters, etc.; reduce the amount of bullets fired. You know, like reduce from 6 to two or even to one.