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Can it get more fucked up than this?

I fundamentally disagree with the approach that the prosecutor is taking against the shooter. Firstly, people should be allowed to prevent the commission of crimes legally, and a standard of reasonableness should be applied in determining what a person can do in the ‘safe prevention of crime’. Secondly, making it out that preventing a crime safely and legally is some sort of complex calculation that requires specific prior training available only to law enforcement does at least two things that are detrimental to a democratic society: it sets a baseline premise that tackling crime and using force reasonably is very difficult, so police should naturally have a degree of leeway when they fuck up and kill someone innocent; and it completely disempowers reasonable people from aiding victims of a crime, lest they be punished for stepping on the cops’ toes. I’ll caveat this by saying that intense, serious training should definitely be necessary for people given the power to use deadly force in the heat of the moment, but realistically in most of the US they don’t take it as seriously as they do in Europe. I would have hoped the prosecutor focus instead on the unreasonable and illegal use of deadly force by the accused, especially if the fucker did stand over a 17 year old and shoot him extra dead.

Altogether a tragedy, with many families ruined by a dumb fuck with a gun. The NRA and gun lobby should face lawsuits for their propaganda bs. The nauseating number of times I’ve heard or read the ‘good guy with a gun’ phrase… which leads exactly to this.