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Originally Posted by cuervo72
Yep. Cowardice may be despicable, but I never realized it was criminal.
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I'm conflicted as well, but I don't think I agree 100% with this statement. The guy had a job that he (allegedly) didn't do and people died as a result. If you are the food safety officer that just doesn't bother to inspect a bunch of restaurants and 10 people die from e-coli, or you are the guy who inspects airbags for Toyota but you are off smoking doobies and defective airbags kill a bunch of toddlers, I think it's pretty reasonable to at least expect criminal charge are coming your way.
I'm conflicted because of 2 reasons - firstly, I don't see how we can possibly really know what he thought was going on, his explanation that he thought the shots were coming from outside the building and his training called for him to assess the situation sounds plausible enough to me and secondly I'm just not sure we should be in a situation as a society where we whack a gun in the hand of somebody, pay them minimum wage and then expect them to have responsibility to take down somebody who might have an AK, shotgun and a bunch of hand grenades. Like somebody said, I think this guy is the magnet for a bunch of rage that should be directed elsewhere (and that's not a political statement no matter how you feel about gun control) - but I think it's perfectly reasonable that if he's shown to have derilicted his duty that he stands trial for it. I'm not sure if that makes any sense or not.