It's the tyranny of low standards. I sat in an airport in Florida in 2016 watching CNN rerunning the same police shooting footage over and over trying to convince anyone still listening that the pistol that had fallen out of the kid's hand was, in fact, a book. At the time I could have told you the exact type of gun it was, too.

The criminal is excused because he doesn't know any better, those that defend themselves are punished to the fullest extent because it's politically expedient to do so.