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And in all of those there were extenuating circumstances, the cops didn't just decide to execute some randoms in the street.
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Of course not.
Police are as human as anyone, and anyone can make a mistake.
Which is exactly the point I am making. Those mistakes were made by a handful of highly trained armed response police.
If you give every beat cop a gun, I would argue that instances of mistakes would rise, or at the least stay the same but the number of shootings would rise.
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Which again totally avoids the point that if the two cops were armed they might not be dead now. At least one managed to draw a taser, if she had a glock then she might have been able to safe herself and knowing the accused was too cowardly to face the Police and handed himself in that just may have changed his mind about ambushing and murdering two officers.
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Valid points, but this exceptional circumstance, in my opinion, does not throw enough weight to arm "all" of the police.