The NRA (full disclosure: I'm a firearms owner and I was a member before the *jack-booted Nazi* rhetoric started the better part of a lifetime ago) is not concerned about gunowners' rights or those gunowners' or the public's safety. The NRA is a shill for the gun industry pure and simple, run by a small cabal of greedy extremists whose o…
The NRA (full disclosure: I'm a firearms owner and I was a member before the *jack-booted Nazi* rhetoric started the better part of a lifetime ago) is not concerned about gunowners' rights or those gunowners' or the public's safety. The NRA is a shill for the gun industry pure and simple, run by a small cabal of greedy extremists whose only interest is themselves and the power and / or money that accrues to their positions. All the 2A crap is nothing but window dressing and an excuse for their continued existence.
I am as appalled and angered as anyone at the death of Roger Forston, and similarly at the release of Daniel Perry. Perry should have stayed in jail and the sheriff's deputy who shot that young Airman dead should be headed there. Bad policing doesn't even begin to cover the circumstances of Forston's death, and complete and unmitigated bad faith on the part of Gregg Abbot is the sole reason for Perry's release.
But as long as policing standards and training regarding the use of deadly force as basically an unrestricted first resort in any situation that might endanger an officer's safety remain the same, along with the apparent inability of police recruiters to screen out candidates psychologically and morally unsuited to the responsibilities of the job, the blood of unnecessary and unjustifiable killings will continue to flow unabated.
We as a country *should* be better than this. But sadly, I see no convincing evidence that we are. Or that we will be.
The NRA (full disclosure: I'm a firearms owner and I was a member before the *jack-booted Nazi* rhetoric started the better part of a lifetime ago) is not concerned about gunowners' rights or those gunowners' or the public's safety. The NRA is a shill for the gun industry pure and simple, run by a small cabal of greedy extremists whose only interest is themselves and the power and / or money that accrues to their positions. All the 2A crap is nothing but window dressing and an excuse for their continued existence.
I am as appalled and angered as anyone at the death of Roger Forston, and similarly at the release of Daniel Perry. Perry should have stayed in jail and the sheriff's deputy who shot that young Airman dead should be headed there. Bad policing doesn't even begin to cover the circumstances of Forston's death, and complete and unmitigated bad faith on the part of Gregg Abbot is the sole reason for Perry's release.
But as long as policing standards and training regarding the use of deadly force as basically an unrestricted first resort in any situation that might endanger an officer's safety remain the same, along with the apparent inability of police recruiters to screen out candidates psychologically and morally unsuited to the responsibilities of the job, the blood of unnecessary and unjustifiable killings will continue to flow unabated.
We as a country *should* be better than this. But sadly, I see no convincing evidence that we are. Or that we will be.