Gun Rights Groups Call For Dialog With Police After Alabama Shooting

By Tom Knighton

The shooting in an Alabama mall last week is a tragedy and a half. After all, the person killed was a good guy with a gun. It’s everyone’s worst nightmare. The police arrived, made a mistake in who was the bad guy, and now we’ve lost someone who had the will to put his life on the line when it mattered.

Now, a couple of gun rights groups are calling for a dialogue with law enforcement in the wake of the tragedy.

A pair of gun-rights groups called for a national dialogue between law enforcement and the gun-carrying community on Tuesday after a legally armed man was mistakenly killed during a shooting at a mall in Alabama last week.

The Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms released a joint statement calling for police officers and law enforcement officials to sit down with gun-carry advocates and firearms trainers to discuss ways to prevent legally armed civilians from being shot by police during future incidents. The groups said the conversation was necessary to save lives of good Samaritans who are trying to defend themselves or others during attacks in public places. They said …Read the Rest

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