re: #88 ObserverArt

Would I want to try to justify a sad tragedy to a grieving family? On what planet is that a good idea? Why would I suddenly pretend that statistics for all their actual practical value have any meaning in a time like that? This makes no sense. No more sense than pretending the tragedy is the most common use of a gun. I have lost two colleagues to gun violence in robberies. I do not, did not blame the guns. There is only one kind of dead. I still have my gun in case they try it at my office. I will have more than strong language at hand should violence come to me and mine. may as well ask me to speak to those hypothetical but possible robbers families. Will a felons son forgive me for saving my own life? I doubt it.

The police went to better pistols when they faced better modern guns and rifles. They also got radios and helicopters.

Cars are used in crimes. Hence car jacking. Smash drive through the front and grab what they can. Or even worse kidnapping and rape then murders. “get in the trunk” is a death sentence.