[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by jaxie

I think it must be very difficult to police in a country where guns are so easily accessible and it's easy to point fingers at the establishment. When it comes down to it and someone pulls a gun it's probably a split second decision and it's them or you in your head. I very much doubt it has much to do with being 'trigger happy. Not all of these incidents are deliberate or premeditated and I can't imagine there is much time to see how old the person who appears to pull the gun is, or indeed if it's a real gun. The real problem is the NFA and the US gun laws.

My sympathy lies with the child whose life was ended before it truly began. I don't give the slightest **** about these officers. It was their incompetence that stole this child's life.

I lost sympathy for the police when incidents like this became a regular occurrence, it happens every other ****ing week so I think it's more than fair to blame the establishment because something is very wrong in the US when it comes to the police and far too many people are content with sticking their heads into the sand because it's black people who are the victims. If these officers shot a white child then they'd be hung out to dry and the people who think BLM is a joke and that there isn't an issue would be screaming out for blood and demanding a change.

Gun laws don't change the fact that these officers are at best, incompetent or what worst, racist and incompetent. Either way, they are incompetent and shouldn't have a badge and a gun if they shoot first and ask questions later. Guns are a last resort for officers to defend themselves or others, it's not an introduction. Pretty much all of these incidents have been a result of these moron officers thinking they are Dirty Harry and the system protects them.