I wasn’t making any attack on your country. My focus the past 5 months has solely been on the US. I’m vaguely aware that some western cities around the globe have had BLM protests. That’s all I know.

What was it in years past?  What is it elsewhere?

I don’t know if anyone has said there isn’t a problem with police abuse and brutality. 50 years ago it was swept under the rug and tolerated. All officers in the death of George Floyd are internationally known and under indictment for murder.

There’s 330M+ people in this country. I’m not celebrating any death, but if 39 unarmed people, most of which were actively trying to harm the officer or someone the moment they die, are all the lives our police force take each year, I don’t know if that justifies the lies, violence, harassment, damage and threats that those in the streets believe it does.

I have no idea what’s going on in your country. But one of America’s two political parties celebrated this group at their national convention and profess alignment with them. Virtually every American media outlet is showing them in a positive and peaceful light. And any corporation with Facebook is waiving their flag. I think a group/movement/ideology as vague and misinformed as the larger BLM political movement is worth objective scrutiny. Not indifference.

No less than 5 police officers have been shot in the past 4 months directly by those out supporting this movement. Just as the uninformed swallow the popular narrative without much thought and believe there’s a war on black men by police, police officers are being flooded with images of thugs assassinating their fellow officers. They see a media making them out to be evil, and have to endure daily verbal if not physical assaults from people looking for an opportunity to go viral. I’d say it’s the perfect storm to create tragedy. Rather than fuel the flames of the uninformed and prohibiting dialogue based on fact, the media should serve its purpose to inform and educate with the objective truth. When MSNBC stars say “black lives don’t matter” on national TV because officers who were fired on serving a warrant they were required to serve, returned fire at the person who just shot one of them, weren’t charged as murderers, how the fuck can you pretend there isn’t a serious disconnect from reality, law and objective truth.

If you had any familiarity with firearms, you wouldn’t be advocating people be shot in the limbs. The cop was shot in the limb, in his femoral artery. It’s a fluke he’s alive. You shoot center mass because it’s hard enough to hit a moving target, let alone a moving limb on a moving target. There’s no country in the world where cops or soldiers are trained, let alone told to shoot at limbs. Mainly because it doesn’t capacitate someone. Jacob Blake was tazed and wrestled. He still shrugged it off and went for a weapon with a cop’s gun inches from his body.

The average gun shot is 140-160 decibels.  Indoors it's going to seem much, much louder.   The only way someone is staying asleep while someone opens fire indoors is if they're knocked out on some kind of narcotic.  I'm not aware of any instance of families being shot in their sleep.  I know a family was murdered in their home for some drug shit in Ohio a few years ago, but there was nothing to suggest they were all asleep in their beds as gunmen walked through the house.  Even with a silencer, the decibels hover around 100.  And I'm not aware of any epidemic of people using silencers with any meaningful regularity.

When my dad shot himself in the house 10 years ago, everyone heard it.