Sounds stupid to call a rock a firearm. How about call it a violent assault and life threatening like it really is? And in some cases the use of lethal force would be reasonable. And I would think it would be reasonable when faced with a mob of 20+ fit men throwing rocks and chunks of concrete.
The Baltimore cops just stood there and got pelted with rocks——back in the good old Obama days.
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It was an unfortunate choice of words, but it's just the way our President speaks. I've gotten used to it, and don't get my knickers in a twist over his exact phrasing anymore.
Had the lawyers and speechwriters crafted that statement, they would have called rock throwing, 'use of deadly force.'
The appropriate term is deadly force.