The Bullet Counters By Thomas Sowell
"Killing an Unarmed Man." That is how the front-page headline in the New York Times characterized an incident in which a man tried to run over a policeman with his car and was shot by three policemen on the scene, including his intended victim.
An automobile is a deadly weapon. If you are killed by an automobile, you are just as dead as if you had been shot through the heart.
A phrase like "an unarmed man" makes a talking point— as if matters of life and death should be discussed in terms of how you can spin a talking point.
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