02-06-2022, 03:39 PM
(02-04-2022, 08:45 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You're right, but only in the sense that you are much more likely to be killed by your doctor than you are by law enforcement. If you're a law abiding citizen, which most people are, your risk of being harmed, much less killed, by law enforcement is close to zero. This doesn't mean that avoidable deaths should not be prevented if at all possible, but it does shine the light on the extreme rarity of innocent people being kill by law enforcement. In a country of 330,000,000 people around 100 are killed by law enforcement per year that should not have been. This includes no knock warrants. While any preventable death is certainly a tragedy, why are the 100,000 plus killed by medical malpractice less important than the ~100 killed by law enforcement mistakes? Bottom line, this is not the problem that it's being purported to be.
It's like I tell my daughter, it's all about risk level. Is she a good driver? For the most part. But if she's gonna go out driving at 2am, in the rain, on the highway, and then text....well then her risk for an accident is increased.
For this gentleman. Is he a good guy? He probably was. Deciding to go crash at his friends place who's connected to the investigation of a homicide and to take his gun with him in the process? Probably not the best decision.
That doesn't mean he deserved to be shot (he didn't) but we should all learn to manage risks. If there's a lot of yellow flags then it's really a red flag.
