Reminds me, to some extent, of the early Stalin years... It might be the reason those-who-rule-us purchased about 2-billion rounds of ammo during the obunghole years... It's called "planning ahead"... A strategy that the communists have successfully employed for 100 years or so...
“The frequency and the total number of bad law enforcement shootings seem to have been increased exponentially over the past 20 or 30 years, IMHO...”
But they haven’t. I would bet a stack that the only thing that has increased is the news coverage of such things.
Actually there are still very few; you just hear about every single one of them now, because of advances in communications, and the hyper-focus on evil cops and implied racism.