Americans Killed by Cops Now Outnumber Americans Killed in Iraq War

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50. straw how?

The OP mentions all the Americans killed by police - as if that is always a bad thing.

16,000 Americans were murdered in 2010. Meaning that in the 12 years since 9/11 about 192,000 Americans have been killed by other Americans.

Let's say the police have killed 5,000.

Okay, how many of those 5,000 were involved in gun battles with police? The article I linked to would be one such person. How many were involved in some other violent struggle with police? It kinda makes a big difference, or it should, if that number is 4,500 or if it is 500. Without that number, the 5,000 number does not mean all that much to me.

edit: and was quoting Reagan a strawman, or did the article the OP linked to include this nice little rightwing sentiment? "While we’re at it, over a quarter of a billion human beings were killed by government last century alone, making government the leading cause of unnatural death in the 20th century. This doesn’t include casualties from all the wars that governments started to “protect” us."

Gubmint is evil.