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Originally Posted by m21sniper
PS: This is another clear example of why all police firearms should have manual safeties.
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And police officers have ended up dead because they pulled a weapon with a manual safety and forgot to release the safety because of the stress they were experiencing.
Yes, one could blame such a "mistake" on "inadequate" training, but even with significant training, stress can be a wild card.
Additionally, do we really want a police force made up of only "highly trained weapons specialists," who handle their firearms with absolute precision no matter how stressful the situation, or do we want officers with broader skills -- especially social skills?
Odds are, you wouldn't like living in a world where all the police officers were just those with unique "high stress capable" skills.
Again, one needs to accept that we are living in an imprecise world.
That doesn't mean we ignore a shooting like this, or excuse the officer's behavior just because "accidents happen." It does mean we
don't display the "lynch mob mentality," expressed by some on this thread, when a police shooting like this occurs.