Okay I have only just got back from Parachute so I have not had any time to read up on the background of what happened, I only saw the 3news story tonight, and I brought a copy of the Hearld from a service station on the way back to Auckland to find out more.
Firstly the whole issue reminds me of the CSI episode ‘A Bullet Runs Through It’ where a cop is accidentialy killed in crossfire from another officer’s gun.
The reality is this though:
- The Criminal was going to kill people before he was shot, if he was not shot when he was, I’m sure more than one innocent person would have been killed.
- It was an intense scene and unfortuantely things unfold very quickly, sure you can analyse things after the fact and ask lots of what if questions but it can’t change what happened.
- Calling for a Manslaughter charge for the Officer who shot is silly. It is baying for blood, and revenge is not actually the best remedy in these situations, it just creates more pain. A manslaughter charge wouldn’t hold anyway because the Officer did not intend in anyway to harm the innocent man.
- Overuse of drugs and painting the criminal as a victim of his own stupidity just doesn’t wash. He chose to take P, he chose to do the things that he did, he deserves to pay the full cost, and the full penalty for it.
- No matter how tough you make the law, people will still break it, so calling for tougher laws is silly when the drugs are already illegal.
