If they were, there'd be reports of them gunning someone down every damn DAY, instead of a handful of times a year. I also wonder what, exactly, you think police are if you note that "this idea that a person must remain calm when someone points a gun in their face is fucking ridiculous". Are cops not people, to your reckoning? Are they not people who have the responsibility of keeping everyone ELSE safe? If you or I get shot by a mugger, well, that sucks, but no one else is going to die for it; cops don't have that luxury.
Now, there HAVE been a disturbing number of cases of unarmed people being shot by the police, and if you're arguing that we need more emphasis on de-escalation and a halt on the militarization of police forces, I don't disagree at all- but police killing someone is RARE. Only a tiny fraction of a percent of police encounters with the public end in violence of any kind. Turn away from media and look at math.
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They'd kill way more if that was the case, and around half of unarmed people.
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