Guns and Government
The headlines and ledes paint the picture: an off-duty Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office detention officer opens fire on a vehicle that rear-ended his car; meanwhile, the paper brings other news of Wildlife Officers going wild with their guns. Reminded of how government agents have little respect for others and are seldom, if ever, punished for their crimes against citizens, one searches the Internet and easily finds old NAACP reports from 2008, when Charlotte police were shooting people regularly.
Too often Police, or any government agent with a gun, go too far without repercussions. Then they investigate themselves. It reminds me of the decade-old instance of the school bus that pulled out in front of a dump truck and the dump truck driver was found guilty. Or the case of a Highway Patrol car going the wrong way on the highway, hitting another car, and having the Highway Patrol driver found innocent. If a person working for government does it, you can be sure it was someone else’s fault.
There are various types of people who have guns: Police and government agents who carry guns to signify their legal domination over private citizens; private citizens who carry them for self-protection; private citizens who carry them to enforce contracts that they can’t ask the government to enforce (gangs, drug dealers, etc); private citizens who hunt or are collectors.
There is only one group I am afraid of: government agents.
Why? They prove time and again they shoot first and ask questions later. The government proves time and again they shoot first and nothing happens to the perpetrator. SWAT teams going in the wrong houses of kids running from officers, the story is the same.
This needs to change. We have a ‘Conservative’ majority in the state house and a governor who says she cares about the people. A review board made of private citizens, with power to make things happen, seems to be a needed restraint on this unnecessary habit of government officers penchant to shoot first then say: Life’s tough, now you’re dead.
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