Dale Reichel
California
Dear Editor:
Everybody has a right to defend themselves, that's a given. But you don't have a right to kill or murder someone, that includes law enforcement.
In recent years, we have seen, thanks to video, citizens and police go beyond self- defense and murder -- or try to anyway -- people, and yes it seems to be Black males quite often.
As I heard on the "Fresh Air" radio show, the NRA and other gun groups have radicalized poeple in this country and pushed certain military firearms and this "stand your ground" stuff.
Stand your ground laws are not for self- defense, they are to let confrontations escalate. We have seen the consequences.
If someone is dead from a confrontation, we can't see or hear their side unless a video appears or there are bystanders. People can get away with murder.
Americans have been radicalized, even the professing Christians.