How is engaging in a conversation about the issue "suppressing" the conversation? It's the very opposite of that, in fact.

Meanwhile, you are - to use your own term in the exact reverse situation - "suppressing" my opinion that criticising the behaviour of the girlfriend is victim blaming.

There's a word for it when someone does one thing and complains when others do it back.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

You were the one who used the phrase "negates anything you say" to someone else.

I'm not suppressing your opinion, i'm saying that you're using a w***y phrase to shut down conversations regarding the actions of the girlfriend of the victim.

And I'll repeat that the video still doesn't explain what happened, at all.

Optimistic as ever

Sanctions ? he should be tried for murder not chastised like a naughty school boy whose broke a window with his catapult.

I think therein lies the problem America is so used to gun crime they've become almost sanitised to it.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

Just because you can have a gun does not mean you should. As the great Chris rock once said " you can drive a car with your feet if you want to, It's bad bad f***ing idea but you can."

How about a prejudice free society that don't target and kill policeman for no other reason than they are coppers ?

Edited by dannyh (25 Jul 2016 1.05pm)

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

I think it depends, if you have a concealed carry permit, its a bit different. Of course driving a car with your feet is reckless endangerment. People carrying guns illegally, of course play into a situation where its certainly understandable why they might be shot.

Of course its not always enforced the same way - Here are some very unconcealed firearms.

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The US, definitely has a problem with guns. The moment you have people taking assault rifles to dinner with them, you know you need serious gun control.

I'd certainly imagine that a white guy with an assault rifle slung over his back is much more of a noticeable threat, than say a black man with a pistol in his pocket....

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Your post above shows your fundamental misunderstanding of everything going on here.

1) This is 'Merica! Having a gun, and posing with it for photographs, are constitutionally protected rights.

2) In many states (I believe a majority of the 50), walking down the street strapped with handguns and/or long guns - including the controversial AR-15 - is not only legal, it requires no license.

3) If you think that not carrying a gun will mean you will not get shot means that you're not paying attention. The original outcry was over unarmed black men getting shot but it's recently morphed to including legally-armed black men. So the common denominator is not "armed" or "unarmed", it's "black man".

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.