[in front of a protesting crowd, two characters are talking]
[blue, serious] Violence is never the solution
[purple, smug] Agreed, let's disarm the police
[blue is now shown angrily gesticulating, sweating bullets]
NO,
NOT
LIKE
THIS
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That's just bad statistics.
Not at all. This article with a spreadsheet by Mother Jones show that there's been about 1128 mass shooting deaths in the US since 1982, using active shooter incident data. And this paper by The Lancer estimates about 30800 deaths by the police since 1982 until 2019. Adding the data from Wikipedia for police killings from the last few years (2019-2026) gives us about 38028 people killed by the American police since 1982, so I was a little off. Even so, taking all that into account, police in america is 33 times deadlier than mass shooters.
Wake up to reality, kid. Your pigs are worse than people who go to schools to kill children because they're omegasuicidal.
Yea you're just bad at statistics. Which is not mutually exclusive with ACAB btw.
Like this is the reason math teachers don't accept just the answer. One can arrive at the correct answer while still being terrible at math.
Not each individual police officer, police as an institution is more deadly than society’s baseline rate of mass shooters. Surely that was obvious from the context.
Buddy ACAB all the way. But you and everyone upvoting you are shit at math. Hive mind af.
edit: Especially your bit about the AR15. WTF does that have to do with your stats? 90% of the police shootings I see are with handguns.
What I meant with that is that all the gun control push to ban AR-15s because they're used in active shooter incidents from liberals is bullshit because there is a much bigger problem of police violence in America that suburban liberals refuse to address because they benefit from it.
Also, you posting an AI overview immediately makes me think you're posting in bad faith.
I'm literally just agreeing with the guy saying this is a bad use of statistics. Glad to see the reddit hive mind is alive and well.
I think you’re responding to the wrong dude. I’m not OP.
You replied to me and are defending OP so don't complain that i'm throwing salt at your math skills.
The fact that your NOT op makes it worse. Means I nailed it with the hive mind accusation.
You defs missed the part about getting the right answer with the wrong math. I'm not arguing that police aren't deadlier than shooters. I'm pointing out the math he used to back it up is bullshit.
Ehhh, I’m gonna trust the guy who quoted actual sources and not the guy who literally pasted “AI Overview” into his comment lmao
So if I hadn't been honest you would have trusted me? Very telling hive mind mfer