yeah, that's not ok

shooting is only when they resist being arrested. they have the choice to stop running away. but once they are confined what's the point in killing them?

this problem that america had in the last 30 years with so many prisoners was caused by an unjust monopoly of licensure on drug production and sales. yet at the same time, giving license holding drug companies the freedom to bombard people to persuade them to seek drugs 🤬 pure hypocrisy, and why there was so many prisoners.

and it had a subsequent effect of putting people who just wanted to use or sell drugs but never engaged in violent behaviour into contact with those who were in prison for violent behaviour, which is known to lead to the more susceptible individuals to become inured to violence, get out, and actually become violent people.

they literally were enforcing these laws to bring slave labor to private jail companies.

so, to be clear, violence is violence. there is nothing violent about engaging in trade of goods produced by or acquired by just means. there would be a lot less incentive to produce, sell and use many drugs without these artificial incentives.

and people who are mentally unstable, have a primary problem before the drugs come into the picture, and make it worse, it doesn't help them either to persecute them based on this. again, putting them into jail for simply making personal choices exposes the risk of them becoming radicalized to criminality by those who already are.

anyway, i went off on that tangent to talk about the cost of keeping these people locked up.

don't lock people up for competing with a monopoly. there shouldn't even be a monopoly. because putting black marketeers into prison with violent criminals just provides violent criminals with people who can bring money in to make even more violence.