Thank you very much for your response ColoradoCop
Perhaps a better way to look at it would be this:
Let's say you have no history and no prior knowledge of the 2 teams at play.
You have a bad accident (or are an observer watching this unfold), now the parties are stuck in their car in a ditch so to speak. At this point in time, there is no crime going on and no human threatening another, except the threat of getting run over / additional accidents due to people not paying attention / not seeing things.
Guys wearing the Red team outfits show up with a whole bunch of big impressive expensive looking equipment and people with more cool gear and proceed to block things off so everybody on their team can get to work pulling the victims out of their cars & clearing the wrecks and getting their medical guys in to treat everybody & taking their time to make sure they have everything covered, they seem to have their act down really well and lots of practice and seem to have the situation well at hand.
Then a guy wearing the Blue team outfit shows up, with his fast car, cool gun and tough attitude. Starts yelling at the guys doing the work, something about he is the boss now, they better do what he says, starts demanding that the paramedics drive off before they are done treating the victims properly, saying he knows best where equipment should be placed to provide a safe work space & then when he feels he is not "respected" enough in his demands, he proceeds to grab the lead Red team guy, stopping him from helping the victims, handcuffing him and arresting him and nobody else from the blue team can be seen coming to suggest that their team member calm down.
Given the above being observed, if you were an unbiased observer or one of the victims, what opinions would you have of each team? When the story is told far and wide by the observers, how do you think it would come out?
Which team would you feel actually has the most training in how to handle the accident situation for the safest outcome for everyone and the best care for any victims?
If you were to have to be a victim in a similar accident and you could only pick 1 team to show up, who would you want & which team do you think could best resolve the issue without needing the help from the other team?
Now of course one bad actor doing one bad action, shouldn't reflect on everyone in the group... however do you hear a bunch of his fellow team members condemning what was done & promising that such behavior will not be tolerated & it will be dealt with right away? Well it at the least doesn't make the news.
For comparison of how one single incident shadows an entire group, look at those of us who appreciate our 2nd amendment rights:
Every time some crazed (usually liberal/communist/insane/leftwing nutjob) person uses a weapon to commit a crime or somebody goes threating people with a weapon, apparently it is fair game to blame all of us for our support and enjoyment of the second amendment rights, in the news media, politicians, and even those in the blue team from blue states piling on statements for the news, all demanding that we be stripped of our guaranteed rights.
Do we get any credit for all the lives saved and crime stopped by citizens defending themselves?... again crickets...
But you'll notice we and our lobbyists that we pay for, right away go out of our way to say what an evil person the criminal is and how that is wrong and they should be punished for their deeds.
