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And "somehow", only people that are swatted in the US wind up dead...

even though 'gamer culture' is larger in Europe and Asia. ( and in many countries in both, swatting has been attempted ).

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The number of guns floating around in the US has a whole pile of effects that are active in this case: more guns increases the chance of a gun really being present, it increases the number of dead LE officers the ones in the SWAT team are familiar with and it increases the chance of the officer not making it home. Add poor training, the SWAT team already being only called in into situations that are supposedly dangers and you're a stupid mistake away from one or more people being killed.

USA police always struck me as super insecure in the few interactions I had with them compared to Canadian and European police. Even in Latin America the police in general was a lot more relaxed.

Incidentally, in the military there were similar issues with something called 'force protection'.

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