Comments by "Cinderball" (@cinderball1135) on "White Woman Pulls Gun on Black Couple Having Picnic" video.

  1. I think they were doing their best to de-escalate the situation. Bear in mind, she still had the gun. As far as they could tell, there was nothing to stop her pulling it out again.
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  2. In my country, the UK, we have similarly prejudiced, self-entitled and officious old women who like to brandish whatever feeble power they've got, to intimidate anybody that's younger or weaker than them. The difference is that they don't have ready access to firearms. I feel like the whole complexion of this situation was very different because of that stupid revolver she had in her back pocket, and the way she was walking around with it says to me, at any rate, that it's like a lunch lady's employment badge, or a gardener's hat - it's something she falls back on casually because she feels like it gives her some authority so she can get her own way. I don't think it ever occurred to this woman that what she was doing was issuing a lethal threat to an actual human being's life (and yes, this is where the racism part of the incident comes into play). The fact is that somebody's life can depend on something as tenuous as an old woman's unsteady trigger finger - and I ask again why anybody in their right mind would want to own such a damnable little machine - or indeed to live in a society where any Tom, Dick or Harry might be carrying.
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