Beachryan
More helpful with spreadsheets than Phurry
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To me - this attitude means that we'll never improve anything. It's a truism, excellent soundbyte. It has no nuance, room for the complexities of reality and reduces a hugely complex, multi-variate issue into a binary. It sounds great politically.Anyone who thinks that cop was justified in murdering a 13 year old unarmed child is part of the problem.
It's far easier than thinking about, for example, why officers are so ill-prepared to deal with being confronted by an armed suspect. It ignores why a 13 year-old has access to and was potentially dangerously discharging a weapon. It ignores what may have been reported by whoever called the police, the police's policy on how many officers approach such an incident. It ignores any background around where the incident was, history of similar incidents and what was learned or not from them.
But who is going to argue with: don't shoot little children?