Police Shootings

Why?

Sorry but no, it is not obvious.

Not quite.Some White, Anglo-Saxon, Evangelical Christians can stay.White Jews must go.White Catholics must go.White Progressive Christians that are not Progressive Primitive Baptists must go and even those are suspect.White Muslims must go.White Atheists must go.White homosexuals must go.White Transgenders must go.White Liberals must go!Unless they are needed to cut the grass or pick the produce or clean the toilets or pick up the garbage; they can stay as long as they stay away.Edited by jar, : wrfng key

Fortunately, my handgun is still present. Lately it's been an FN 1906 that was most likely made in 1913 or early 1914.

Phat, I agree that we need to reimaging what policing should be. We need to redefine the basic roles of policing in the US.That would begin with reforming much of our current legal system and diverting funding to address root causes. You misunderstand why I carry a handgun.I am not and have no intention of acting as a civilian law enforcer. I will never make a traffic stop, serve an arrest warrant, make an arrest, respond to a domestic violence call, try to stop a mass shooting event or most any of the silly stuff shown in movies and TV.I do not carry a gun in some hope that I will someday use it.But carrying a handgun does require an additional amount of responsibility, a requirement that I remain aware of my surroundings and see beyond my smart phone. It requires constant awareness that I am full responsible for any shot I might ever take and that includes being responsible for things like over penetration or ricochets. It requires being aware of what might be beyond my field of vision but still within any possible trajectory.I carry a gun in the fervent hope that I will never use it for anything other than target shooting and training but have had to use a handgun on a couple occasions to dispatch a nolegs.We need to keep the police out of tasks where they are not trained. When need expanded mental health folk and increased community involvement from the ground up.We need to decentralize schools, move education back into the neighborhood with far small schools and a much higher teacher to student ration as well as return the grandmothers and aunties directly into the daily education environment.We need to decriminalize drugs and make them legal and I strongly believe we should federalize distribution of drugs; give them away for free through local neighborhood health clinics.We need to address root cause and the guns themselves ain't a root cause.