Time for a drink....
The fact that this is considered a political meme :(
I once got a death threat here on lemmy for suggesting that democrats were better than Republicans. That was interesting to say the least
And that's why fascism seems to win. Seems like they can compromise as long as the people the don't like suffer
Seriously lemmy can be wild in this regard. I got a death threat for implying democrats were better than Republicans.
I'm not in love with many of their policies, they don't go nearly far enough, but like damn they're obviously the better choice
American here, my grandmother would eat an onion would cut an onion with a knife like a. Apple and eat the pieces
Why improvise? I can walk into a store and leave with a rifle and armor piercing rounds
Ironically we don't see much evidence of infectious disease in hunter gatherers. Now of course this only talks about those diseases we see evidence of in bones, but until we started keeping livestock and living in large close groups there doesn't seem to have been much.
Obviously there still was disease. You're never going to be able to find evidence of an infected wound or pneumonia in the skeletal remains, but the big killers like smallpox, measels, leprosy, etc. don't develop until later.
Of course for those humans in environments that supported mosquitos malaria was still a huge problem.
It was jail either way
Unfortunately I don't think that would be practical in the US. We do have many people with guns and weapons in general. An overhaul of training and giving access to appropriate tools would be most important. As it stands US cops are taught that a gun is their best tool and that's how they use it. Maybe enforce pairs where only the senior most trained officer has a gun?
Otherwise I would like to see a lot more unarmed units focused on community policing issues. Whether that be a part of the police force or not. I also agree with units that only do traffic enforcement nothing more. That alone would reduce cop shootings massively. Many departments treat traffic stops as a way to catch other crimes and could care less about enforcing traffic laws that keep us safe
Police are trained that it is an "us or them" situation every time they encounter someone. Everyone will try to kill you unless proven otherwise.
They are taught if someone has a knife pulled they will be able to kill them.
Now obviously a severely disabled teen would not be able to rush them before they pulled their weapons. But they are not taught to evaluate or deescalate these situations. They are taught to kill
Exactly, I definently miss the times when politics could be more easily separated, at least mentally, from the day. But at this point we're in an actual dumpster fire. There's not much else to look at.