I hate writing these posts about gun deaths in the states. But here we go again. This time in Charlotte North Carolina while serving a warrant.
“Four law enforcement officers were shot to death and four others were wounded on Monday in a gun battle that erupted while they were serving a fugitive arrest warrant at a house in Charlotte, North Carolina, authorities said.”
“The fugitive, who opened fire on officers as they arrived at the residence, was himself fatally shot during the gunfight, and two other suspects were arrested after an ensuing standoff, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.”
Medicynical Note: Our Supreme Court in its wisdom interpreted the second amendment written into our constitution in 1791 to mean that almost any type weapon should be available to almost any citizen. As a result we lead the world in mass shootings, shooting of innocents by police, shooting of perps by police, school shootings, accidental shootings, gun suicides, gun murders and shootings of police by perps.
Rather than take the hint that guns in our society are a risk to everyone our courts and segments of our society maintain that bearing weapons even the most deadly types, is our inalienable right. This despite the fact that they so clearly facilitate all the above categories of death by guns. You’d think that police who are rightly terrified of running into a perp with a gun as above would support some form, any form of effective gun control, but for some weird reason they don’t.
So the shootings will continue and sadly, brave officers and others will die and our Supreme Court Justices will sit in their homes protected by armed guards because you know a peaceful picketer might possible be carrying a gun.
WTF America.
Medicynic 