&quot;But, it&#x27;s disingenuous to think that all demographics get an equally fair shake&#x2F;generous response from law enforcement when they are holding (or believed to be holding) a gun.&quot;<p>Maybe they do and maybe they don&#x27;t, but that particular argument doesn&#x27;t work at all. There&#x27;s a huge difference between a protest (even with armed protesters) in broad daylight surrounded by cops and news media, and a split-second confrontation between a police officer and a suspect in the middle of the night. You cannot boil down both situations to &quot;a person may have a gun.&quot;<p>(To be clear, that&#x27;s not to make any moral judgements about the people involved in those two different situations, or what cops should or should not do. Just saying they are different, and it&#x27;s dangerously simplistic to line them up next to each other and believe you&#x27;ve proved anything.)