Comment by jMyles

> But that's another issue.

...is it?

It seems to me that the growth of professional police as an institution which bears increased responsibility for public safety, along with an ever-growing set of tools that can be used to defer responsibility (see: it's not murder if it's done with a stun gun, regardless of how predictable these deaths are), are actually precisely the same issue.

Let's stop allowing the state to hide behind tooling, and all be approximately equally responsible for public safety.