No, suspects are more expendable then police or civilians. That’s the current decision matrix. And Police didn’t sign up to be shot or killed. They are not soldiers.

Man, 1,000 out of 12,196,959. Police use lethal force in 0.008198764% of arrests. This is truly “jumping so often to lethal force.”

These protests are about the incident in Charlotte, so we will focus on that. And yes. If you have a gun, and the police tell you to put it down, and you don’t? You are being combative. Generally, if you don’t do what the police say you should? You are being combative.

If by heroes, you mean totally selfless martyrs? No, they aren’t. Police risk their lives, but they aren’t asked to let themselves be killed.

There are situations which do not require lethal force. Lots of them. The vast majority in fact. Which is why police have the various nonlethal tools they do. From shouting all the way to Tasing someone, police have a wide variety of options for dealing with threats. But there are extreme situations, where a Police…

When it means that someone else might die? Yes. Thats the judgment of society. The other measures are tools available, but they don’t work in every situation.

Unfortunately, that may result in the death or seriously bodily injury of a civilian or police officer, because those options may fail, and if they fail, result in an offender having time to take an action. Furthermore, police are not omniscient. They do not know when a suspect has a gun perfectly. And a times,…

I agree! Crowd Control is incredibly difficult, and there are always lessons to be learned from a failure. In an ideal world, protest leaders and higher ranking police would meet and discuss what occurred, what went wrong, and how the police could reduce the chance of it occurring again (not the protests, but the…

But you don’t believe lethal force should be used on unarmed people, so there go their guns (if you believe police officers should be using firearms nonlethally, you know nothing about guns.)

Yes. Also core to constitutional jurisprudence as regards the first amendment is that the Government may make reasonable restrictions on the Right of Assembly as to the Time, Place, and Manner, so long as the restrictions are content neutral, not vague, serve an important government interest and fairly enforced. The…

Most *people* are great people, there are just *some* bad ones who might kill you. This applies to pretty much everyone.

If you think “unarmed” means ‘not a threat’ then you should talk to the 728 people killed by unarmed individuals in 2011 (you know, double the number you are tossing around.)

Or you know, restrictive firearms laws, a lower crime rate, a lower poverty rate...

I can’t disagree more. Chrono Cross has the skeleton of a good game. But its major problem is its absolutely massive cast. A good set of thematic ideas can help a game be great, but without characters we care about to make the events have emotional impact, it all falls flat. The massive cast prevents any character…

You uh... don’t understand Tax Deductions. While you can deduct costs of doing business from your profits, thats because profit =/= revenue. All deducting cost does is reduce the pool of taxable income. Thus, any savings from doing so will inherently be less then cost paid, because taxes are always lower then the…

Biden didn’t run because nutty or not, the guy is fairly politically savvy. He had almost no money to his name when he was first elected, and has stayed in congress despite being poor by Senate terms (he’s worth between 60,000-366,000. Proliteriat hero Sanders, for instance, is worth in the neighborhood of 800,000.)…

I’m a Dem to, and I even like Joe Biden. Guy is still as nutty as fruitcake.

Wait, Joe Biden is a boring white guy?

Honestly? I think if the kids had struck and run him over, they had a very legitimate Stand Your Ground Defense. The law explicitly covers individuals in their vehicle, and he pointed a firearm at the two, then shouted at them to not move. At no point did he indicate he wasn’t attempting a forcible entry into the…

Ummm... what figures? Because I can find a single study that supports that, one with a small, non-diverse sample size of entirely college age individuals, that was conducted in an extraordinarily poor methodology, given to self selection and other biases, as well as frankly being unethically conducted. Meanwhile, most…