Americans are familiar with countless gun 'accidents' occurring in their country.
Cops' shoot first 'policy' is one of them.
Just finished Michael Dobb's
Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War
And this 'disease' was apparent even in post War Berlin; American soldiers committed more gun related accidents that any other countries(that is, the other 3 nations that administered the city). A soldier even accidentally shot a conductor of Berlin Philharmonic to death.
An army officer is said to have explained that it is an historical outcome of the Wild West, saying that they had to shoot first to ensure survival at that time.
How reassuring. And alas, it will continue..America really might be a country of Gun & God; is that ironic?..
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