Disabled Vietnam vet, 70, shot in the stomach by police as he reached for his CANE during a traffic

[The Straight Story]

13. That doesn't make a lick of sense

Back in my day we were taught to be suspicious as well and it had nothing to do with how many guns were owned by the citizens.

Less than one percent of people who own a gun use it in a crime.

Now if all they do is read DU and such they might be convinced that there are fifty million shootings a day just like if all I read were newsletters from some groups I might believe that all people of color are out to get me.

What we have are trigger happy idiots taught that every citizen is a potential threat - and not just in a common sense way you might teach an officer - but in a boogeyman way like 'everyone might be a terrorist here to blow up the US' kind of way.

Cops are taught to be suspicious of everyone, I am down with that. But that was then. Today they have all out assault vehicles, military style weapons and training, and the old 'they might be drunk, aggressive, and carrying a weapon' is now 'They could be part of a sleeper cell with their finger on a detonator. Their speeding might be a trap to get you to pull them over so they can blow up themselves and take you out. etc'