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Re:Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting by malvosenior on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:10PM (#16750683)
When there’s a power imbalance, it’s sadly human nature to exploit it and become aggressive. For instance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment
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Re:Google maps shows location of San Bruno shooting by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:37PM (#16751142)
There are so many guns, police have to assume everyone is armed in dangerous. So accidental shootings by police of innocent civilians is significant and, unfortunately in our society, seen as mostly unavoidable.

This is completely unrelated to the Stanford experiment.

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