@Osiris @TheStoicCrane

They're trying to justify their pre-established behaviour with the dismissal "Oh if they represented themselves better this wouldn't have happened/people would have more sympathy". The critical problem here is that what started the riots in the first place was unprovoked murder by a police officer. It doesn't matter at all how you present yourself if you are murdered by the state, it doesn't factor in anywhere. The desentisitation and ad-hoc justification is everywhere, 1000 a year is a terrible number, far worse than Europe and Russia combined. If other gun owning and/or low income countries can function with massively fewer casualties then the problem rests only with America and its structure. They don't want to even considered the possibility that they don't even live in the "home of the brave, land of the free".