I have a question. If guns are such a menace, why do we require cops to carry them? And please don't use the excuse they're trained to use them. I'm thinking of the 49 shots at the guy in New York where only 17 hit. And he was cornered in a porch.
Wasn't that an innocent man who asked an off-duty cop to get off his stoop as he often did to others, then was shot dead after hitting the cop who refused to leave? The victim had his fists, not a gun, and was shot by the cops anyway. What about the black off-duty NYC cop who was shot by a white cop in May?
I have friends who are cops and never use their guns. Instead they walk their beats in Philly and know the people in the neighborhoods. Good relations, not guns are their weapons of choice.
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