THE PLIGHT OF THE UNARMED PERPETRATOR: Neo-Neocon responds to a recent post by Power Line’s John Hinderaker:

One effect of the “hands up, don’t shoot” lie is to tell would-be perpetrators that they’re better off defying a cop than surrendering, because it won’t help them to put their hands up since the cop will shoot them anyway. So the covert message is that they may as well try to attack the police officer (or run), who would just as soon shoot them as not no matter what they do.

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