2011-08-09, 03:17 PM
See, the problem with that is the fact that the police themselves are also humans- Fight or flight. If the guy pulls a gun are you going to care about what happens if you do? Hell no! You're going to be like "HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS HE'S GOT A FRICKEN GUN.wtp DO I DO???" First instinct would probably shoot to live or run the hell away. It doesn't matter the race of the guy (unless the police looked at him because he was black; that is a problem), if your see a gun pointed at you, of course you want to remain alive. The argument i guess, for these "protesters" that is, would be that the police didn't need to shoot him- even though he had a gun, that had the potential to harm the police officers, he should have been stopped using a less than lethal weapon (aka a taser), which, IMO, does not make sense considering my above statements.