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Originally Posted by Rochard
Comparing your country to the United States is like comparing apples to nutmeg. I am not being insulting - I am sure it's beautiful in Finland. The amount of homicides you have by firearms in any given year can be counted on my fingers, while in the US we have cities like Chicago that have had over 450 deaths. The rate for homicide by firearm in Finland is 14%, while in the United States it's 69%. We have a vastly different gun culture here.
Finland had fourteen homicides in 2014, only a fraction of which involved a firearm. In 2014 one hundred and twenty-one police officers were shot and killed in the line of duty. This doesn't include the ones that were shot and wounded.
The police officer did in fact step back. One moment the police office was up against the car door, but eventually had backed up to the point where he was off camera.
You cannot really argue this because in your country there are only a handful of homicides, and only a small percentage of them involve firearms. In the US we have thousands of homicides, and more than half of them involve a firearm. It's not that police are afraid to take risks, but in the United States when police come across someone armed with a firearm it instantly becomes a deadly situation.
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Actually Finland is quite violent country, at least comparing to neighbours (except Russia). Although, even though we have one of the highest gun densities in the world, there is not that much shootings, as you already said. And you already said why. Because of the gun culture. The gun culture doesn't spring up from nothing. In US you promote cowboy like gun culture, police being high profile example for it. In here we promote the kind of culture that we don't shoot each others, shooting other nationalities is another issue as most men have been in army and so on.
I know that US has different situation and culture, but I also know it can be changed, if there is just will for it. But as long as it seems to be OK for cops to shoot people if those are just labeled as criminals, it surely won't help the situation.