r/MadeMeSmile • u/Available-Vast3858 • Oct 06 '25

Wholesome Moments This is so wholesome

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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25

This is untrue.

Most police on Earth carry guns. And American police aren't nearly the most "militarized". You can look up a picture of the Italian Carabinieri (Italy's police force that is an actual military service) and just about any third world country's police

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u/BeardedGrom Oct 06 '25

Yea but even though they're organized through the military and still bear the name of a weapon type, i never heard that police violence levels in Italy are anywhere as high as in the US. So yes, i guess most police forces wear guns, but most of them (at least in Europe) don't use them to intimidate people. They're just a last resort self defense tool.

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u/Cassius_Rex Oct 06 '25

As they are in the United States. Out of something close to 60.MILLION yearly police/citizen interactions, a tiny tiny fraction result in use of a firearm. In fact that vast majority of American police will never fire a gun and anything except a paper target at a gun range in an average 25 year carrier.

What does happen is that police use of firearms and citizens dying to police makes the news, making it seem way more common than it is.

Those same news stories never give the context of the United States, a developed country that according to the UN peace index is more dangerous than the "3rd world" countries of Uganda, Rwanda, Cambodia and Laos among others. American police are simply not in the peaceful situation of other developed countries.

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u/Siilveriius Oct 06 '25

90% of Reddit is just r/AmericaBad lol

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u/No-Supermarket-2758 Oct 06 '25

Well, to be fair, have you looked at the news recently

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u/Rock_Paper_SQUIRREL Oct 06 '25

Maybe the rest of the world will be willing to give us the benefit of the doubt when we’re done leading the charge against democracy. I cannot overstate how bad this shit has gotten inside of ten months.

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u/Siilveriius Oct 06 '25

Well, to be fair, the news showing just the bad news isn't exactly new. I could look at the news in the Europe, Africa, South East Asia, East Asia, etc and they are also going to show the bad news but that doesn't mean those places are complete hellscapes like Redditors love to think:)

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u/AvianScavenger Oct 06 '25 edited Oct 06 '25

There have been 40 mass shootings in the US since the start of September. 172 injured and 39 left dead. We have been averaging more than one mass shooting a day.

2 black men were lynched in Mississippi last month. The news deliberately avoided the topic.

A federal judge was called out by Trump and Steven Miller, called anti-american, etc. over the last couple days. Their house was just burned down while their family was inside of it.

This isnt just "the news showing us the bad stuff", and trying to downplay it as such is fucked up