Well said.
Thank you. When I’ve said something similar in the past, I’ve generally been severely flamed for implying that guns might not be entirely positive in their effects.
Personally, I’m with Mark Steyn. American LEOs kill WAU too many Americans. It’s not a white/black thing, it’s a cop thing.
By some counts, there are about 1000 American killed, in one way or another, by cops every year.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/another-much-higher-count-of-police-homicides/
Meanwhile, German cops killed 6 Germans last year. Since Germany has about 4x the US population, that means American cops kill Americans at roughly 40x the rate German police kill Germans.
That’s a pretty big differential. Without saying anything in particular about a specific case, surely our cops kill more often than necessary. And, yes, most German police are armed.
Note: There are all kinds of reasons the above figures might be off in one way or another.