While I agree that the availability of guns is definitely a problem, a lot of the videos that end up in the news show that police are often acting extremely ama

While I agree that the availability of guns is definitely a problem, a lot of the videos that end up in the news show that police are often acting extremely amateur-ish and escalate situations themselves instead of trying to deescalate. Most people, even criminals, most likely do not want to shoot a police officer because that essentially means that you're screwed for life; one shred of DNA, a photo, a name; that's all it takes to make life miserable, even if you get away with it initially. So the only reason people actually pull the trigger is when acting extremely irrational (drawing a weapon against a police officer is already irrational per the above), and that's exactly what happens in so many of the videos that we see lately. I mean, let's take the recent Jacob Blake shooting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5cSwVEyDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS5cSwVEyDg Why is he being shot? He poses almost no threat whatsoever, what is he going to do, pull out an AK in his car and shoot the officers in broad daylight in front of witnesses? The officers with their weapons drawn and their shouting only increase the stress levels of everyone involved; it's amateur-ish on so many levels. As a Swiss (another country with high availability of guns), this is absolutely unimaginable here; an officer drawing a weapon on someone will result immediately in an investigation whether it was justified (at least that's my understanding but I might be wrong, at least that seems to always happen when something ends up in the news); I have witnessed some nasty arrests in person where the person to be arrested resisted but never, ever did any officer draw their weapon. And I would be surprised if even the thought of doing so crossed their mind; they certainly were trained not to. I do think that the USA has a gun problem, and I do think that it plays a role in why so many people are shot by the police, but I also think that, at least from what I see in the media (and might thus be heavily biased), that the police seem to be badly trained, especially when it comes to deescalation techniques, and that there is not enough accountability for their actions and bad behavior.