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by vkou
2 days ago
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There are hundreds of billions of person-to-person encounters annually and almost all of them end just fine, yet people feel the need to: 1. Come up with a beautiful story about how they need to have guns to defend themselves. 2. Come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who improperly uses violence in such encounters. Encountering a cop is one of the most dangerous 'mundane' things that can happen to you. ~One in 50,000 encounters ends with someone dead. Going on 50,000 drives is unlikely to send you to the morgue. |
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It's something like 1000 people killed by police annually, but it's childishly dishonest (or ignorant) to ignore that ~995 of those are people actively trying to kill the police.
I wouldn't call shooting out your back window because you're getting pulled over "mundane".
Also, if each drive is ~20 miles, you have around a 1% chance of dying. That's 500x greater than even the dishonest 1 in 50k stat. Just further driving my point home for me, thanks.