Good guy with a gun...

[Benton]

(11-12-2018, 07:40 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The problem is still not enough guns.  the sight of a citizen carrying a gun is still so shocking to police that they respond with deadly force.  However if every single person in public was forced to carry a gun police would not be as suspicious and would not shoot as quickly when they see an armed citizen.

When need to remove the choice from the 2nd Amendment.  We need to add some teeth to it and require every person to go openly armed whenever they are out in public.  Then there will be no shootings at all.  Just like in the territory west of the Mississippi before it was divided up into States.  Everyone carried a gun and there was zero gun violence.

I get the sarcasm, but it goes back to training and the line of thinking that 'everyone is armed, get control first and worry about what's actually going on later.' Many officers already have the mindset that everyone is armed and intent on doing them harm.

The problem with gun violence here is multi-faceted. But in regard to officer involved shootings, I think a good deal of it goes back to this mindset.