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And Yet Again: Police Shoot the Wrong Man

This is a little like a tragic replay of “Groundhog Day.” Again an innocent person, an active duty airman this time, was brutally killed in his own home by police who didn’t identify themselves as they broke into his home.

“Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black US air force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man’s family said on Wednesday.

Medicynical Note: I can only conclude that our gun crazy country condones the murder of innocents as a cost of doing business—the gun industry’s business. The dead are literally viewed as “collateral” damage. In this case, we allow the police all manner of privilege because perps might have guns that our laws make available to anyone. So the killings of innocents are tragic but of course necessary (sic) accidents. All to justify the phony idea that our founders would have wanted anyone to have access to the most aggressive weapons because we’re a “free society.” Of course the families of Roger Fortson and the innocent victims of other shootings might disagree—A freedom for me and death for you society.

The solution to the problem is well known and accepted in all other industrialized nations i.e. gun control. But our Supreme Court Republican appointed justices huddle in their homes protected by guards with guns, too politicized and merciless to care. They need their armed guards of course, because, you know, there might be a picketer nearby who might carry, you guessed it, a gun. They are pathetic miserable faux devout group of jurists. They are destroying America ruling by ruling.

Incompetent Policing: Colorado Springs Slaughter

“But the law that allows guns to be removed from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others has seldom been used in the state, particularly in El Paso County, home to Colorado Springs, where the 22-year-old Aldrich allegedly went into Club Q with a long gun just before midnight and opened fire before he was subdued by patrons.’

“”If the justice system had followed through with something, anything … he wouldn’t likely have had access to be able to get a weapon and five people wouldn’t have died,” Bowman said.”

Medicynical Note: Given the dereliction of duty by the Chief of Police and his office I would hope the victims of this preventable massacre force the firing of the chief and obtain massive compensation from the city and county for their loss.

This only happens in the U.S. where guns are cheap and available to anyone; where our police forget the protect part of their duty while cashing their paychecks; where children in school live in fear; where innocents are regularly slaughtered (over 600 mass shootings this year). This happens rarely if ever elsewhere. That’s a fact.

It’s not that we have more mental health problems than elsewhere, it’s not the doors; it’s not the founders (they’d be appalled); in most cases it’s not police incompetence; ITS THE GUNS.