For those who didn't know, the police culture becomes quite a bit more sickening when you find out that one of the arresting officers, along with 2 other colleagues, posed grinning in a photo mocking their brutality against McClain just days after he died! Across the street from a memorial to him, no less.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/Elijah-McClain-aurora-...
Obviously it's more than he should have been given (and tbh am pretty uncomfortable with it being given here at all), but my decidedly non-expert opinion (and the official autopsy statement that the "ketamine in McClain's blood was at 'tolerable levels' ") is that there's all sorts of red flags about this situation.
Just barely dangerous. You might see a bit of transient respiratory depression, but the risk of respiratory arrest or clinically significant hypoxia is very low even in an out-of-hospital setting. We have case reports of paediatric patients receiving as much as 50mg/kg without significant ill effect.
https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/S0196-0644(99)800...
Ketamine doesn’t really depress respiration that much. If the airway is physically obstructed, however, because nobody had their eye on him...
My goodness that's a lot of ketamine.
A "strong" recreational dose would be about 1mg/kg. 2.5mg/kg and the person is anesthetized.
Sounds cool. I have had some bad experiences with cops.
Suppose someone breaks into your house because of your skin color or political leanings and there are no police. What course of action do you recommend? Spoiler alert. You are also heavily armed.
Whatever course of action you take, do something in addition to or besides call the police.
I am definitely not a conservative on most issues, but I am a strong believer in the right to have a gun in your own home and the various “Castle” laws. If you break into my house or try to take my car while I am in it, I am going to assume you mean me harm. Shoot first then call the cops.
Yes I know the statistics about a gun in the home is more likely to be used accidentally or on purpose (suicide/homicide/accidental shooting) against someone in the home.
Do you know how absurd this sounds to people in actual civilized countries? Kind of amazing how many of you Americans are living in some Wild West fantasy.
4 in 10 Americans live in a gun owning household. That number is probably greater in the south.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/22/facts-about...
It’s probably even greater for someone willing to break into your house.
Guns in the US is a “gravity problem” no matter how much you complain about them, they aren’t going anywhere.
We live in a country where the far right is arming up and when the left wants to “peacefully protest” and exercise their first amendment (not saying it always ends up being peaceful), the far right is “exercising their 2nd amendment”.
Which side do you think is going to come out ahead?
If an armed attacker breaks into your home, would not the first thing you do be to call someone to bring a gun over quickly to protect you and bring an end to the risk?
This is no different than keeping a fire extinguisher in your home versus relying 100% on the fire brigade to protect you.
Firearms are safety equipment, nothing more. The fact that you equate a common tool, used in every civilization in the world, to “some wild west fantasy”, says more about the baggage you attach to it than that which exists in reality.
No, please do your research
It’s just like what happened when Reagan was the Governor of California. As soon as Black people started peacefully “exercising their second amendment rights”, both Reagan and the NRA were all for gun control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
Even now while the liberals are fighting for more gun control, conservatives are arming up - especially in the South.
The far right is getting armed while the far left is talking about “give peace a chance”.
That still comes back to the same question - if the criminals have guns and neither law abiding citizens or the police have guns, where does that leave the law abiding citizens?
The first half is at least arguably true, the second half is...not.