That same argument could be made for “ordinary” citizens, too.
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I agree with you. But that has always been the common argument. That a murder in a robbery or some such is a crime against an individual. And that a murder of a cop is an attack on an individual AND society as a whole.
But of course, only 5 or 6 decades ago, and for all of time before that, the distinction wasn’t really deeply considered, because almost EVERY murder was punished with death.
But I do wonder if this is an attempt to get a death penalty against cop killers in states that have ended the death penalty.