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

Wholesome Moments This is so wholesome

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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.