Liberal gun nut here. It’s useful to set gang violence aside to seperate it from gun violence that is random, which is what most people fear. IRL the term is almost always used to mean, “brown people killing each other doesn’t count”.
Targeted violence does not bother people as much, same thing with the mob killing each other, or even a jilted lover. What really freaks people out is random violence.
The meth head that knifes someone for their wallet in an alley, or indiscriminately spraying bullets and hitting innocent bystanders.
The media feeds the fear, expressly to build the police state, and to give them unaccountable power.
Liberal gun nut here. It’s useful to set gang violence aside to seperate it from gun violence that is random, which is what most people fear. IRL the term is almost always used to mean, “brown people killing each other doesn’t count”.
Targeted violence does not bother people as much, same thing with the mob killing each other, or even a jilted lover. What really freaks people out is random violence.
The meth head that knifes someone for their wallet in an alley, or indiscriminately spraying bullets and hitting innocent bystanders.
The media feeds the fear, expressly to build the police state, and to give them unaccountable power.
*black people, but yeh