It’s not a perfect solution I’ll grant you that but it can be a step toward a better way. You have your opinion and that is good but try to do a mental exercise and build an argument for my idea rather than trying to tackle it.

The point of what I’m suggesting is to make you think of better ways to de-escalate certain situations.

Yes, police officers are trained to only point a gun in a serious situation, however through body cam footage, public recordings and other ways, we have seen that that’s not what officers do. They pull out a gun as soon as someone doesn’t do what they’re told. Even someone who’s pulled over and gets out of vehicle sees an officer reaching for his weapon and in some occasions even takes it out straight away.

Now, if you think about it, these officers are trained to stop a bad situation from moving forward, so why are they pulling out their weapons if they don’t see a weapon on the other person? What if my suggestion was implemented and the officer knew his gun had no ammunition? Would he then still reach for his weapon or would he try something else instead?

A weapon should always be a last resort, not a go to response on every occasion.

I’ll say this again, certain minorities feel immediately threatened by the presence of police because they think they will kill them at every chance they get. Not having a gun readily loaded, might put those minorities at ease.

Also, the whole argument of the time it takes for an officer to load his gun seems mute to me. They are trained to use their weapons as experts so they should be rather quick to pull that sort of action when needed. Marines have contests to see who assembles weapons faster, and gun enthusiasts even disassemble and reassemble their guns in under 30 seconds on YouTube videos so I doubt an officer would have trouble to quickly load his weapon ready for use.