News outlets really gotta stop qualifying people who get killed by the state.
“No criminal record” is irrelevant, because the state shouldn’t be killing *anyone.* Specifying this indicates that the writer thinks—and that the reader should think—that this detail makes a difference. It does not.
Philando Castile and Daniel Lewis were also legal and licensed and not suspected of any crime and did not brandish their weapons and were nevertheless gunned down by police. Gun rights groups were silent about them.
If the Second Amendment applies at the discretion of police with summary execution as an outcome, then it doesn’t exist.
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