Time to Ban Police Having Guns? By John Steele

     The latest US shooting is by a police officer of a person, Stephon Clark, a Black. It seems that Mr Clark was shot in the back six times:
  http://www.breitbart.com/california/2018/03/31/independent-autopsy-suggests-police-shot-stephon-clark-back-least-six-times/

“An independent autopsy on Stephon Clark suggests he was shot at least six times in the back by police. ABC News reports that Clark was shot and killed March 18, when “two officers fired a total of 20 shots at [him].” The officers had received a call “someone breaking car windows in the 7500 block of 29th street” when they crossed paths with Clark. Sacramento Police say their agency’s helicopter “witnessed Clark break a glass door” before they told officers to approach him. Sacramento Police said, “The officers gave the suspect commands to stop and show his hands…The suspect turned and advanced toward the officers while holding an object which was extended in front of him. The officers believed the suspect was pointing a firearm at them.”

     At this point, it is hard to say what happened. The claim that Clark was shot in the back six times though would indicate murder. The number of shots fired at one person, 20 in all, is utterly absurd, and dangerous to the community. There will be riots about this, as usual. I am not totally unsympathetic here, as the police across the world are fast becoming an aggressive para-military force, quick on the trigger. Of course, violent criminals feed this process. What will be interesting will be the silence about this from the teenie gun protestors, who logically should now be calling for the US police to surrender  their guns, especially if this is a homicide. Watch their silence.