civilians

This unfortunately feels like a huge sinkhole which won't produce any tangible benefit for the military or civilians.

It needs to be addressed on an international stage before the civilians on both sides begin suffering.

Although it sounds like the culture issue described comes up with military pilots on IFR plans around VFR civilians.

I understand that there are complexities with guns being used by civilians, but surely there are reasonable uses?

Car speeds haven't meaningfully changed in the last 40-50 years, so it's likely that the danger to civilians and police hasn't particularly changed either.

We don't consider Robert J Oppenheimer or Albert Einstein mass murderers even though their work very directly contributed to the deaths of thousands of civilians.

You seem to forget which is the only country in the world who has (twice) deployed a nuclear weapon upon a city full of civilians.

During 2011, about 25 female police officers wounded or killed civilians.

I think that the likelihood of civilians being armed in the US is a lot higher than in Germany, so I can imagine why American cops are a little more paranoid.

Following needless violence against civilians was never in his playbook.

How many cases have there been of the police taking lives of civilians who were in the right and can prove it but were given no chance?

That's a pretty rosy picture of how a weapon programmed to perform an ethnic cleansing, a terror attack, or to herd civilians out of an area would act.

In wars, invasions, etc, including those done by "democratic powers" few care about "misindentification" (or even far worse offenses to the enemies including civilians).

"In North Korea civilians are routinely rounded up by the dozens for public execution" That's nothing to do with socialism but everything to do with being run by a crazed dictator.

And I would argue that in a trade-off between police or military safety vs civilian safety, civilians are similarly "both more vulnerable and more innocent (in the sense of being less responsible for their predicament)" than the military or police that interacts with them.