@ThrowawayNoKids I have read your post several times now and can't possibly imagine what anyone could possibly be expected to understand from the phase:
"I’m sorry but I disagree, it is simply that most do not carry guns. There have been similar incidences in the UK."
Other than "the only reason more black people aren't short by the police in the UK is simply because most police in the UK don't carry guns."
If you meant anything else by this I would be interested to understand because you explained it very poorly. People can only respond to what you actually put on the page, not what you meant in your head.
And how was my experience about gun training of police in the UK when you brought up police having guns in the UK first?
I don't disagree that police use force disproportionately against black people in either country. I do disagree that if we only introduced guns in this country our levels of black people killed by the police would increase greatly - because our police are trained to use all weapons as a last resort whereas those in the US, as seen in the multiple videos that have come out of the protests in the last few weeks, have been trained to use severe violence as their first option, against black, white, old, young...any people.
I agree with the previous poster who said 'defund' the police is not the correct terminology if what is actually meant is 'not increase police funding and give more money to other preventative causes.' To me 'defund' means take away money. I am sure the police themselves would be ecstatic at the prospect of not having to deal with the wide variety of mental health and social issues that constant cuts to social support have meant they have become responsible for...becoming the default 'last resort' safe holding space for individuals with serious mental health issues because social services and hospitals have both refused to accept them was not what they signed up to.