I wasn't writing about this specific case so much as commenting on the fact that cops are far more likely to be nervous and twitchy in the US because of the ver

I wasn't writing about this specific case so much as commenting on the fact that cops are far more likely to be nervous and twitchy in the US because of the very real threat that the prevalence of arms represents. Re-run a scenario 100 times and the more nervous people are, the more bad things will happen in some % of cases. Cops aren't saints in Italy where I lived for many years, not by a long shot. And yet this stuff happens less.