https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdnwTR8kyk0
I was less concerned with the shootings in the clips and more irritated by the presenter’s tone of casual, satisfied, Bible lesson speech. He was almost purring when he said:

“identified as a drifter with an extensive criminal past. But when he tried to take an officer’s life, he ensured he would have no future!”

His tone simply tosses away the whole gravitas of recording a person trying to kill another and dying in the attempt and makes it all into a sort of perverse, self-righteous “live gun porn”. Is that how these events are picked up on and disseminated in the US?



Moreover, since the bit of moral outrage above is not reason enough to warrant a post, I do have a dilemma.
Now, I should first add that I hold no clear stand for or against and I do not wish to involve myself in the thread per se.
Still, while the legalisation of weapons may not contribute to the crime rate in the sense that those weapons are actually used in criminal activities, I can’t see how they are not building up the phenomenon. When you commit the crime you may use an illegal weapon, yet you can very easily pre-train with their legal counterparts. A whole infrastructure is put in place, teaching you their potential and how to handle every calibre; instructors, shooting ranges, weapon shows allowing you to intimately understand what would suit your needs. Hell, children are in some cases tutored by their own parents, who are under the impression the kids need this sort of life-lesson. Thus when you actually wish to commit said crime, you know exactly what you’re after and how it feels to employ it; not only does it come that much easier to you to pursue that path, but it may even cross your mind solely because you are so familiar with the possibilities different types of guns open up to you. Over a few decades, the whole culture is transformed into... well, what you chaps have in the US at the moment. That’s where one of my small quandaries on the matter springs from at least.