Old Dog
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^^^^ Good post, DeepSouth. Concur 100%. In my original post, I made some "if" statements. Interesting that a couple here believe they'd be too rattled in the aftermath of a deadly force encounter to do anything constructive, regardless of whether they had clear opportunity to provide aid. Others, just excuses and rationalization.
A first responder of my acquaintance to a motor vehicle collision in which a wrong-way driving, three-time DUI subject killed a couple young kids, being cognizant of the state of the occupants of the other vehicle, and having to render aid to this POS while he was crying that he was hurting, sorry and wanted his mommy ...didn't turn his back in hopes the drunk driver would bleed out; no, he rendered compassionate first aid after extracting the driver from the mangled wreck before EMS (which had been delayed by a multitude of calls in a small district that night) ... quietly answered my questions by saying he answered to a higher authority.
Another cop I know had to shoot a 17-year-old boy who had committed an armed robbery ... with an airsoft pistol. The boy indeed did cry, "Help me," apparently in the belief that everyone who suffers a GSW dies ... this cop rendered what aid he could, on the spot (covered by his partner, of course) until EMS arrived within a few minutes.
A first responder of my acquaintance to a motor vehicle collision in which a wrong-way driving, three-time DUI subject killed a couple young kids, being cognizant of the state of the occupants of the other vehicle, and having to render aid to this POS while he was crying that he was hurting, sorry and wanted his mommy ...didn't turn his back in hopes the drunk driver would bleed out; no, he rendered compassionate first aid after extracting the driver from the mangled wreck before EMS (which had been delayed by a multitude of calls in a small district that night) ... quietly answered my questions by saying he answered to a higher authority.
Another cop I know had to shoot a 17-year-old boy who had committed an armed robbery ... with an airsoft pistol. The boy indeed did cry, "Help me," apparently in the belief that everyone who suffers a GSW dies ... this cop rendered what aid he could, on the spot (covered by his partner, of course) until EMS arrived within a few minutes.
So, having acknowledged that -- do we simply accept this at face value, or do we strive to be better than that? What would Jesus do? (Sorry, couldn't resist ... but I am trying, in my old age, to be a better man.)This world is a wicked place full of wicked people who do wicked things. The moral bar is set pretty low, the legal bar even lower.