Perhaps, just perhaps, they might get shot less if they had two orders of magnitude less of a habit of shooting others on basically no provocation whatsoever.

Perhaps, just perhaps, they might get shot less if they had two orders of magnitude less of a habit of shooting others on basically no provocation whatsoever. This isn't some abstract dream scenario, it's basically how it is in every other modern democracy. It's only the US that has this problem. Clearly we are screwing up, somehow. It's long past time to come to terms with that.