Why Cops Shouldn't be Allowed to Carry Guns

[Starboard Tack]

19. I don't think I excel at talking my way out of situations any more than you or anyone else.

I prefer not to use the violent option, so I leave it off the table. I wonder how that's working for those, in GSC's stats, who chose the violent option. Either they are dead or injured or they killed or injured someone. We see in numbers what we want to see. No human life is an irrelevant statistic, unless it can be saved. Then it becomes highly relevant. Killing one to save another is still a killing and nothing to brag about, IMO. It just reinforces the notion that violence and killing is acceptable behavior.

Your examples are out of some movie script, but I'll answer them anyway.
Driving to a hospital while bleeding out presents a problem, but the intention is to save life, not take it. Having a traffic accident is very different than shooting at center mass.

I'm sorry, but having a gang of knife wielding youths chasing me is beyond my comprehension. Groups of people do not act in unison without cause. What possible reason could they have?

Tiny percentages still count for those make up those percentages.

Point is, nobody is carrying a gun to protect anyone but himself.