How do we think about the George Floyd murder?

Encyclopedia of Opinion

Question: How do we think about the George Floyd murder?
Position‹5 of 5: George Floyd's murder is a structural issue: American gun laws are to blame

The US gun laws mean every police engagement is potentially life threatening. Corrupted by their power over life and death, police feel above the law, which feeds their behaviour and how others respond to them.

Supporting arguments · 4

Gun laws increase levels of paranoia on both sides of the law
The current state of gun laws in the US has created, and continuously feeds a state of paranoia that reaches both those in law enforcement and members of the public. It creates a vicious cycle; the laws make it too easy for a member of the public to acquire a firearm, which leads to heightened paranoia in officers that an individual they have stopped is carrying a weapon. This leads to a high rate of police brutality/murder by police, and in turn leads the public to lose trust in the police, and turn to other methods of protection i.e. a gun
Tighter gun laws will help reduce violence in low-income communities
There is a correlation between poverty and gun violence. Better regulation of how and to whom firearms are issued would reduce gun based violence.
Changing gun laws will eradicate colonial roots of gun violence
The roots of the Second Amendment rights in the US constitution emerge from colonialism. Changing gun laws will eradicate the colonial roots of gun violence.
Lax gun laws allow people to suppress the ideas of other people
Making it easier to obtain guns creates an environment that has the potential to silence others by intimidating them into submission, especially if the owners of the guns do not share the same ideologies as those they are trying to intimidate.