If a police officer sees his gun as the answer to even small threats, we need to rethink our system of law enforcement.
I recently read a news article about a Houston officer that shot a man in the head because he was threatening his partner with a pen. It’s a little more complicated than that, but it still raises many questions about the way officers choose to deal with certain situations, even potentially threatening ones. The man in question was confined to a wheelchair and missing one arm and a leg. The officer in question shot him in the head to stop him.
