You know, when I was a kid I lived if not “on the streets”, pretty close to it. And sometimes I got mugged or beat up.
But no one got killed.
And, maybe in some ways I’m lucky, but the “shoot first, and ask questions later” crowd holds life pretty cheaply.
A suspect exiting a vehicle, aggressively approaching a cop, taking the cop’s gun, and beating the cop nearly to death ... well, that pretty much answers all the relevant questions about whether to shoot.
Cops DO get killed.
(Maybe one of the reasons for that oft-derided “privilege” is that some groups have generally learned: don’t do things which warrant getting shot.)
It’s obvious that if the person coming at the cop was white, the gun would’ve come out and eliminated the threat. Black lives matter. White lives don’t.
NO, it isn’t holding life cheaply. It is holding the life of an assailant less valuable than your own. You are blind if you do cannot see the difference in kid fights on the street then, with the violent beatings people are getting today.
Back then did your street friends attack the elderly? Women with kids? Unsuspecting people from behind? Did you gang up and have 10 or 15 thugs attacking one person?
Any of those things and I will happily value their life cheap. That’s on them. Want your life valued? Cherish mine.