Tag: acab

This episode of Forensic Files makes me happy, a mom whose daughter got hit by a car did her own detective work after the cops just went over a nice old black guy and sje found the guy who hit her daughter herself.

The poor girl died 21 years later, but still a relatively nice story.

One Thing I Think The #Ifwewerepraisedlikecops hashtag misses

is that modern police forces were formed to break strikes and catch runaway slaves.  They aren’t praised for “doing their real job for once” it’s more like “local murderer chose to spare this adorable baby after murdering their entire family, what a nice guy”.  

Terror and murder are literally their job.  They are fulfilling their expected function.  Murderous racist cops aren’t aberrant or “breaking the rules”.  Those are the rules.  The rules are bad.  They’re functioning as intended and that is horrific.

For me, being familiar with guns, I guess I tend to find the idea of “assault weapon” bans actually rather scary because it gives the illusion of doing something without actually restricting access to what actually allows things like this to happen. Removing the bayonet lug won’t make us safe, it’ll just make us feel safe and that really scares me.

Also if you are not likely to be on the receiving end of state violence you don’t understand how scary the idea of the only people with guns being police and military personnel is.