Self-defense is a right, not an obligation. The reason we honor police, firefighters, etc as heroes is that they choose to expose themselves to danger on behalf of society. That means doing things like facing down armed children without immediately deploying your own weapon in self-defense. People quickly presume these situations are “him or me,” but they are never that simple. So you see a gun in the kid’s hand. Maybe he just found it on the ground and doesn’t understand what it is. Maybe he does understand what it is, but isn’t capable of making it fire. Maybe it is loaded with blanks. Maybe lightning will strike before he can pull the trigger. Or maybe, as in this case, it was just a toy. When police arrive at a scene and are shooting someone within two seconds, we have strong evidence that their desire for self-preservation outweighed their obligation to protect and serve. Self-preservation is a very natural and human response. But if you are a police officer, your role is to suppress what may be natural in the service of society’s greater good. These officers did not do so. Whether it was because they acted in haste, were poorly trained, or what, we don’t know. All we know for sure is that a child with a toy is dead. Something went very wrong. https://youtube/watch?v=CD_9aGllfew
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 13:13:08 +0000
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