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It's easy to condemn rioting, violence, and looting. But one also has to condemn the reasons why rioting happens. And that's a place that many don't want to go.

Go watch MLK Jr.'s "The Other America" speech. It's well worth your time.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOWDtDUKz-U

Corporate America sending jobs overseas while their board shills are getting golden parachutes and tax breaks to boot have been greasing the skids for a long time.Corrupt politicians getting raises while voting down benefits for others while taking directives from the 1%.I've been for Main Street against Wall Street for years as I'm sure many here have been.Honest profit earned is great but it appears the Rich and even poor have been represented - the middle class has been screwed.Make to much to get government benefits but not enough to get the write offs/tax breaks of the wealthy.I know a lot of people getting laid off in the local schools yet not one of the too many Admns,nor are they taking pay cuts.I know some of these tossers and they wouldn't cut it in the private sector

In several industrialized countries the beat police don't carry firearms at all. I wish we could do that here, but with our elevated levels of firearms ownership, I don't know that police officers could do their jobs safely without their own firearms. 

That sucks, too.

I don't know if it's more or less common that police draw their handguns on people, but I believe (without knowing or any specific evidence) that we have militarized our police more than in the past. I also believe there have been good reasons for much of that change--for instance most police wear body armor now. That didn't happen by accident.

I'm not sure if we've discussed this here before, but Kalashnikov's rifle revolutionized individual firearms, which, particularly following the expiration of the hideously named "Federal Assault Weapons Ban, has revolutionized the weaponry the common U.S. citizen (who chooses to) carries. Yes, bad guys could always get guns, and what good mob movie doesn't include Tommy guns (fully automatics were't illegal until 1934)? Nonetheless, the individual weapon of choice has changed and is much more powerful now than it used to be. I don't know the specifics, and it isn't limited to a change in rifle ownership--a similar change has occurred in handguns. I suspect (again, without anything more than belief) that police are more fearful now of the threat posed by individual gun owners than in decades past. Which is curious, because although the number of firearms sold has gone up, the number of firearms owners has declined significantly.

A very low percentage of murders are committed with rifles of all kinds, for obvious reasons.

Also, cops killing dogs has become common and accepted too.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/reason.com/2020/07/31/detroit-police-department-settles-another-dog-shooting-lawsuit-after-video-contradicts-cops-account/%3famp

Your comparison is absurd.  Saying that life exists is factual. Saying cops point guns at people is factual.  Saying it’s common and accepted is an opinion.

I could just as easily say it is uncommon and my claim would have just as much validity as yours.

Then fucking say it! It's a message board not a peer review article

If anyone cares, the rifle below is able to fire the same cartridge as the AR-15 at the same rate of fire with the same muzzle velocity etc.  It doesn't look nearly as scary though.  And yes, it can accept very large capacity magazines, just like an AR-15.

Then fucking say it! It's a message board not a peer review article

Thank you! Finally, someone admits it that a feeling or emotion they have is just that, a feeling or emotion. It really isn’t backed by anything.  But you and I are just arguing on a message board.

There are idiots burning this country down based on feelings that, when you really start looking into them, aren’t based on anything substantive.