Care to elaborate? I get that gun control is indeed an issue worthy of its own debate, but how do you go from discussing police brutality to legally armed civilians being the root of evil?
Not OP - but the absurd prevalence of privately owned guns means that the police go into every interaction thinking that the person on the other side could be armed and could kill them on a whim. They're not even wrong about that. We have more privately owned guns than people of sufficient age to own them.
The police in other countries can take a much more relaxed attitude toward their interactions with the public because there's almost no chance of the person shooting them.
> police go into every interaction thinking that the person on the other side could be armed and could kill them on a whim.
They could be, but are very unlikely to be. Despite the huge number of privately guns owned in America, the vast majority of cops will never be shot at nor have valid reason to shoot at somebody. Cops who constantly fear for their lives are operating under a warped view of reality.
I think it's a culture problem for cops. They hang out on cop forums, cop chat rooms or facebook groups; they read cop newsletters and generally socialize with other cops. These groups have the effect of amplifying stories about violence against cops, because those stories are sensational and of obvious interest to cops, and that amplification in turn gives rise to a warped perspective on how risky their job actually is.
The police in other countries can take a much more relaxed attitude toward their interactions with the public because there's almost no chance of the person shooting them.