Getting Shot

 GETTING SHOT

There is much discussion these past few years about police brutality - - police shooting and killing citizens for one reason or another.  This often occurs after a traffic stop or some other inconsequential interaction with the local police force.  Of course, one can get shot by another civilian, but for our purpose here, we are discussing getting shot (or tased) by a police officer or some other form of law enforcement personnel.

If you look at many of these interactions, where someone ends up deceased, the deceased has not done what they have been told to do or not do.  They have been disobedient - - non-compliant.  They are normally dead because they have decided to disobey a "lawful" command by a law enforcement person.

When you draw a firearm and aim it at another person you are threatening to kill that person.  Officers are trained to draw their firearms in various circumstances - - routinely.  They will tell you it is for officer safety or of the concern for the safety of others or as policy, but in fact it is a threat to kill the person who the firearm is aimed at.  If someone points a gun at me, they are threatening to kill me.  Pretty simple really. 

Guns kill people.  That is what they are made for.  Their main purpose is not to be an article in a museum or a gun safe, but to kill people or other living creatures.  And this is what they are in fact used for - - killing people.  All over the planet people are being killed by guns; it's an established procedure.  And almost always, at least the vast majority of the incidents of death by gun, the person being killed is refusing to do what they have been told to do by the person with the gun.

It is a matter of obeying.  One must obey or get shot.  This is as true here as it is anywhere else - - obey or get shot.  It happens, if not daily, weekly here in the good old United States of America.  One sees the videos; often one can even hear the conversations.  Often cars are involved.  Someone doesn't stop or someone won't get out of the car or someone grabs for a phone.  Oops - - you're dead.  And most often, the officer was following "procedure" or "policy" and is thereby justified in killing the person killed.

Established policy or procedure is a defense to such killing - - "I was trained to shoot  a person under these circumstances hence I am justified".  Enough said.  

It's all for the good really.  We need a compliant public - - one that is in the habit of doing what it is told to do by representatives of the government. 

Richard E H Phelps II

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