Virtually all of the gun violence in 2021 Cincinnati, Ohio was perpetrated by black people
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I find it more statistically significant that 100% of the gun violence was done by people with guns.
I’m not holding my breath for Americans to finally drop their unhealthy fetishization of guns but a simple shift in carry laws - such as not carrying a loaded weapon reducing the harm a single moment’s unthinking act of anger could do - would probably cut violence in half.
Some might counter that criminals will carry loaded weapons anyway and the delay between loading your gun and firing means you can’t shoot them first. But therein lies the problem with that mode of thought: If the first thought in your head is to try and quickdraw someone who already has their weapon trained on you then you’re likely not walking away alive. If your focus is on your gun rather than the danger you will do something stupid that will get someone - more likely yourself or a random pedestrian than an attacker - killed.
I’ve even seen video of police who supposedly have strict gun training prioritize reloading their guns and firing without a clearly identified target over tackling an assailant who had managed to knock down and climb on top of their partner. The video I’m thinking of specifically involves a masked attacker leaping out of a car with a family - including children - in the back seat and opening fire when an officer asked the kids to step out of the vehicle. Note that police were firing at the car after taking cover without knowing or caring if the family, who could well have been carjacked hostages, had cleared out. And that while police broke sight to take cover the man with the gun circled around. They were shooting wildly at nothing. It could have been a massacre had the unarmed people not fled when the shooting started.
When the officer reloading his pistol instead of aiding his pinned partner less than a meter in front of him making a swift kick in the face the fastest and safest possible option finally got more bullets in his gun he shot the attacker twice, then after a moment of deliberation after his partner stood back up, emptied his pistol into the dead body out of simple anger. That is not how police should act. This is not how anyone who carries a firearm should act.
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I’ve even seen video of police who supposedly have strict gun training prioritize reloading their guns and firing without a clearly identified target over tackling an assailant who had managed to knock down and climb on top of their partner. The video I’m thinking of specifically involves a masked attacker leaping out of a car with a family - including children - in the back seat and opening fire when an officer asked the kids to step out of the vehicle. Note that police were firing at the car after taking cover without knowing or caring if the family, who could well have been carjacked hostages, had cleared out. And that while police broke sight to take cover the man with the gun circled around. They were shooting wildly at nothing. It could have been a massacre had the unarmed people not fled when the shooting started.
When the officer reloading his pistol instead of aiding his pinned partner less than a meter in front of him making a swift kick in the face the fastest and safest possible option finally got more bullets in his gun he shot the attacker twice, then after a moment of deliberation after his partner stood back up, emptied his pistol into the dead body out of simple anger. That is not how police should act. This is not how anyone who carries a firearm should act.
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