So the vision of America is that since every single solitary interaction could include people with firearms no one should ever engage with anyone in public until all the participants have been violently detained, handcuffed and are sitting in jail. That’s pretty dark.
No, but if I'm called to a report of someone having a mental health crisis, I'm certainly not going to engage with that person until I have police on scene, because the reality is that lots of people with mental health problems have guns here!
Sounds like you’ve identified the problem quite well.
The problem is not the people, it's the fucking guns, and until we recognize that the Second Amendment is an obsolete relic which needs to be written out of the Constitution just as the three-fifths compromise was, we're all just pointlessly tinkering at the edges of the problem.
You’ll get no argument from me. I’d be rid of the 2A and almost all guns in a hot second if I had the chance. You’d still be doing the wrong thing by relying on police to do what it does, at least in the north-eastern cities I’ve lived in.