Gunned Down in Vegas: What Really Happened to Erik Scott?
Horrible tragedy but I feel events such as this are simply part of a larger trend that has been growing for the past 20 years: For lack of a better term I call it “hair trigger fear enforcement.’ We see it everyday from public officials. It encompasses the kind of trivial, but anger-inducing episodes we read about on a sadly, too frequent basis.
You know the stories: Police are called to arrest first-grader for bringing plastic toy pocketknife to class. Routine domestic disturbance calls will trigger a response from not just two but an entire platoon of cops. A TSA security drone will routinely administer full body searches to octogenarians in walkers waiting to board a flight to Boise. Cities and schools remove any playground equipment in parks and schoolyards for fear SOMEONE might hurt. Companies insist on administering drug tests to applicants for even the lowliest of occupations that don’t even involve public safety or handling money.
Via social/political conditioning and destructive legal/tort trends we have utterly bled common sense and proportional judgment out of the “system.” It’s really sad.
