11 officers shot, 1 bystander shot during protests over recent shootings

[Peh]

Nuvendil said:

Peh said:

I guess you misunderstood my first sentence. This argument of "if x had a gun, this could have been avoided" is the main argument from the NRA for school shootouts. I'm just ridiculing it.

A year has 52-54 weeks per year. Not just 52. But that's not even the point of what I said. The point is, that Cops accross the US are badly trained which give idiots like these a reason to go on a killing spree at cops.

Minnesota has a longer education span for becoming a cop (2-4 years). So, no complains there at the moment. But that's sadly not the case for all the states.

Of course you got your bad share of cops everywhere which drag all the cops in your state into a bad light. But the worst part is that the police stationa are backing some of these up.

Also this: http://www.innocentdown.org/ fuels the agression towards police.

Well school shootings are inherently different than these situations. And it's a generalization to say that the presence or absence of an armed guard would stop all shootings, each is different.

But you point about the Minnesota thing proves my point.  Dallas cops get 60 weeks and they weren't the agressors in this incident and to my knowledge haven't had any bad shootings make headlines recently.  But the Minnesota cop after 2 years minimum gunned down a guy who was going for his wallet cause he paniced.  Education and training can help, but cops are people and the high tension right now is affecting cops as much as civilians.  It's more about the qualities of the person's training rather than the quantity.  60 good weeks is better than 4 poor years.  Now 4 good years is likely better than 60 good weaks before you bring it up but my point is, lack of training is only a small part of the problem.  And it's a problem on both ends, civilian and cop. 

I'm not defending one side or the other one. I have also seen the videos where civilians act like fucking idiots and they deserved what was coming at them.

Why Dallas and not Minnesota? Probably because the tension reached their limits over there. People don't care and don't know about the difference in the police educations between the states. They get fueled by the media and either had bad experiences with cops or grew a fear towards them.

If you don't give them a reason to hate you, they won't hate you.

Too sum it all up.

My deepest condolences for the fallen officers. It always hits the ones who have the least to do with this. You are now at a position to go on as it is or change how it works to avoid these in the future.