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Old 02-23-2018, 07:57 AM   #431
Ben E Lou
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Originally Posted by whomario View Post
And again, i think this whole angle of personal fault is entirely the wrong line of thought for having real change and improvements.
It's not mutually exclusive.

The cop should have gone in. Even his boss said so.

AND we need real change and improvements.

SIDE NOTE: It *does* highlight the mistake of basing gun reform initiatives on a particular incident, or on high-profile mass shootings in general. Often many who want it will fall into that trap. The rank-and-file, day-to-day, serial-domestic-abuser-kills-wife-after-multiple-arrests-but-still-got-to-keep-his-gun type stuff seems to fly completely under the radar. I don't know the numbers, but I tend to suspect that the high-publicity mass-shootings that these efforts focus on make up a tiny fraction of the fairly-easy-to-reduce-with-reasonable-compromises gun violence in America.
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