The Psychology term “projection” refers to someone assuming that everyone else thinks, acts, and responds the same way that they do.

The Psychology term “normalcy bias” refers to someone assuming that everything will always be “normal”.

The public in general applies projection and normalcy bias–to their peril–to their analysis of how best to manage violent crime. They make the monumental mistakes of concluding that violent crime isn’t really much of a thing and, on the “rare occasion” that violent crime does happen, that they can handle it constructively as though they were dealing with decent people.

Needless to say, violent crime is much more common than people will admit, especially in urban Hellscapes. And behavioral measures which would likely work with decent people are utterly ineffective with bad actors.

Even worse, many/most policy makers are well aware of the above and capitalize on it to manipulate and deceive their electorate.

You forgot to divide by Jan 6th and carry the proudboy.

I forgot to add Christian nationalist and Christofascist. Threat to democracy! Enemy within!

I assume the shooters were the “enemy within” that the Puppet had his DOJ focused on. You know, white nationalists, traditional Catholics, pro-lifers, and parents that attend school board meetings…

I see you are familiar with conflict resolution in Philly

The time the bad guy has to re-think their position before the defender pulls the trigger.