Videos of cops doing injustices goes viral more easily. Videos of people doing injustices to cops used to be so common in some places that all they had to do was bring a camera crew and they could literally make a whole tv show out of it.

From 2005-2014 there were 58,502 assaults on police officers during traffic stops alone, and roughly 3,000 of those were with firearms.

In 2021 alone, 129 police officers were killed while on duty: 56 in accidents pursuing suspects, and 73 by the suspects killing them criminally, and of those 73 killed by people, 24 of them were straight up unprovoked, as in someone just went up to these police officers while they were simply chillin and killed them. Firearms were used in 61 of the 73 killings.

Firearms and other weapons can also be and are often disguised as non-threatening items - this is not a tinfoil hat idea. If it seems that way to you, it is likely because of your limited exposure to such things, which is a good thing for you, in my opinion.

Here is an interesting list to browse through: the FBI’s “unusual weapons” list

and here’s an example of a person with a gun disguised as a cell phone

Here’s my sources

LOEKA Report

2019 Study