Quantum Windbag
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- May 9, 2010
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There are reasons that a sane state like New York prohibits you from wildly firing at people running away.
1. They no longer pose a threat to you.
2. Recovering property is not a justification for killing a human being.
3. You may injure or kill people not at all involved in any crime.
Yet cops do it all the time.
Until you, personally, insist that every single cop who ever shoots anyone who is unarmed and/or running away, don't try to use the fact that the law treats civilians differently as an excuse to dump on people just because you are afraid of guns.
No they don't.
Shootings by the police are really rare in NYC and NY state.
Most police never fire their weapons outside the range.
If you define rare as occurring more often than full moons, but less often murders, you still don't have a point.