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Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch
I find it hilarious in the midst of this tragedy that you would take an accidental shooting -- the type of which kills 1,500 people a year, many of them children -- as an argument for why ordinary people should be armed and cops disarmed.
The fact remains that all the armchair quarterbacks who are convinced a felony murder warrant can be served by grandmothers carrying kittens and puppies would be the ones who would shoot the fucking place to bits if you told them to break down the door. People shoot their own kids and spouses when they hear something go "bump" in the night, but a cop actually serving a warrant on a person known to have committed a murder? Woodsman, spare that tree.
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I would hold off on concluding that this was accidental. I'm not concluding it wasn't, but in the situation it is just as likely that the cop intentionally shot without being fully aware of what he was shooting at.
If cops are accidentally discharging weapons during a raid, they are truly badly trained and the city should have hell to pay. You don't put someone in a situation like this who isn't truly expert at handling a firearm.
