[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]
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Those statistics can't be directly compared to each other because the number of mass shooters is significantly lower than the amount of police interactions with the public.
It's like saying more people die in crashes with combustion vehicles compared to EVs. Of course that's true because there's more combustion vehicles on the road.
You need a ratio to do any comparison here.
we're not calculating how much more dangerous a cop is compared to a mass shooter.
It showcases that Americans are more likely to be killed by a police officer than a mass shooter. and that police must change in a very fundamental way, from abolishing to defunding it and definitely disarm them from lethal weapons, and make it illegal for them to misuse force (criminal prosecution for assault with no police immunity)
Then why, in your very next sentence, do you compare how dangerous a cop is to a mass shooter?
I'm not saying you're wrong at all, I'm saying the figures being used don't support that assessment. They're just numbers without any meaningful context to compare them with.
But, it's true, Cops kill more people than mass shooters. not per individual.
something must be done, ending qualified immunity is barely the beginning.
Qualified immunity is only protection against civil litigation.