Just a slight correction.
Credit where it is due...
...or is shooting innocent unarmed [STRIKE]endangered lions involved in population studies[/STRIKE] African Americans cowardly?
I find the intellectual fashions regarding guns in the USA difficult to understand.
You seem to miss the aerial view of what is happening on the inner-city streets of America. Did you ever live or work there? I have, sometimes right in the high crime areas teeming with urban terrorists in the form of heavily armed, sociopathic and well-organized Hispanic and black gangs.
The police, in many of these cities, have been overwhelmed by two simultaneous trends--the stratospheric rise in violent crimes/murder COUPLED WITH the prohibition of police to use the methods and systems that had traditionally proved to reduce those spiraling crime waves to a fraction of what they now are.
ONE EXAMPLE: New York City. Don't know if you ever visited or lived in NYC during one of the decades where robbery, rape, muggings and murder spiked to such inconceivable levels that the city was turned into a very dangerous war zone. I was there. When Mayor Giuliani and his staff took office, certain policing methods were put (back) in place and over the next decade the murder and crime rate dropped by approximately 60%! Since you seem concerned about the murder of blacks, you will be happy to know that under Giuliani's empowered police force, the number of blacks saved from being shot, knifed, robbed and murdered was in the tens of thousands!
Now, you also seem extremely focused on the very rare instances where police might have or did in fact used deadly force where it could well have been avoided. It is a tiny number. It is identical to every other profession known to mankind in that there are a tiny percentage of practictioners who need to be a) not hired in the first place; or, b) fired immediately; or, c) prosecuted for criminal behavior. That is precisely what is happening. Yet you are using those anomalies and projecting it back on the 99.99% of highly professional and innocent policemen who do their job every day, despite monumental personal danger.
You mention nothing about the TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG BLACK MEN that are murdered each year by other young black men.
This kind of inverted focus is analogous to a HURRICANE or TSUNAMI hitting a major coastline city (Tokyo, NYC, et al) with devastating property damage and catastrophic death toll. Yet, in the midst of that, focusing on just the death toll in the black areas--to the exclusion of the big picture that all were affected. For your information, on rare occasion the police in the US sometimes exert too much force or end up killing a white person or asian person too. Far more often, in fact, than it happens to your mythical concept of blacks being the only ones targeted.
The inner cities in America are defacto war zones, due to ultra-liberal ("Democratic") administrations, largely voted for and staffed by African Americans themselves. The blacks are not living in white-controlled gulags, despite your theories. In Baltimore, for example, the majority of city gov't and the police force is actually black--yet the media seems to have convinced you that white people are running it to the detriment of blacks.
It is inevitable in any war (or "war zone") that there is collateral damage, because that is the nature of what happens when heavily armed urban terrorists are policed--sometimes it goes badly and the blame can fall on either side. There is not a special problem with blacks being targeted for murder, unless one considers that the 95% of murdered black men are killed by other black men.
I appreciate your effort to mourn the death of innocent people, but don't forget to mourn the death of innocent blacks at the hands of other blacks. And don't forget to equally mourn the deaths of police officers by blacks as well. It's a very difficult situation that, provably, can be remedied by the style of policing that gets guns and criminals off the street. Nothing else has ever worked.
And exclusively focusing on the rare instances where an innocent is killed (black or white) is not the solution. The solution is to remove criminals and place them in jails/prisons where they cannot run their murderous campaigns against citizens.