5. Good grief!! This is a total straw man. That's not the point!
The subject at the heart of the matter is not shooting SUSPECTED ARMED OPPONENTS first and asking questions later. It is about shooting OBVIOUSLY UNARMED CIVILIANS and not asking questions later at all. Justifying shooting obviously unarmed civilians on the basis that there might be bad people with guns in the general vicinity - a safe bet anywhere in the entire country - is pretty damned thin. But this is watering down the issue and saying that shooting some 6 year old girl in the face would be entirely justified because hostile forces could be nearby. It is not about shooting possibly armed young males.
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