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The Cato Institute has a good site chronicling police brutality and misconduct. Do you trust these officers with a gun?
http://www.policemisconduct.net/
In the 1940’s and 50’s, famed Author George Orwell surmised that both the English language and civilized society were in decline.
After a press conference held last week by Emeryville, California Police Chief Ken James, it’s easy to see a decline in both language and critical thinking skills in our country. And as Orwell thought, indeed civilized society may very well be in jeopardy.
It happened on February 14th. Taking to the microphones and cameras in his suburban San Francisco community, Chief James stood at a podium with the requisite group of serious-looking, professionally dressed, pouty-faced people standing behind him...
Guns are an inanimate object, like the article says - it's the operator that chooses when and where and how it is used ! !
You have stated it clearly and accurately.