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9/11 policy panic, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan producing surplus equipment, 400 million privately owned firearms in the US, US history of police standoffs,
by tmpz22 2y ago
9/11 policy panic, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan producing surplus equipment, 400 million privately owned firearms in the US, US history of police standoffs, DoD investment in military PR including Navy Seals worship, and much more have ALL contributed to the Swatting phenomenon.
I don’t think we could have intentionally created an incentive structure for swatting more if we had tried.
And it’s going to continue because guess what was one of the major issues in this election? Domestic security!
- bigiain 2y agoThere's also the super weird (to people outside the US) insistence that the only possible response to gun violence (by gangsters, school kids, or cops) is "thoughts and prayers".
- paulryanrogers 2y agoConstitutional amendments are basically impossible in the US. A congress member shot at a congressional event won't even vote change the second amendment (Scalise). Even conservatives know the only hope is stacking the supreme court.
- nilamo 2y agoThe solution is obvious, but we unfortunately continue to choose not to do it.
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- TeaBrain 2y agoNone of what you mentioned backs up the idea that swatting used to exist in the past as it does now.
- tmpz22 2y agoI didn't do a great job segueing from the parent. I agree with the parent, and my comment expands on why its happening now when it wasn't happening, at least to the same degree, in the past.