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Lawyers mourn barrister shot by police

very strange All I can say is that I hope I do not live in the same neighbourhood as the last two individuals who commented - tolerating behaviour like Mr Saunders exhibited is not acceptable in any society. The idea that the police acted unreasonably strikes me as plain odd. He was clearly acting irrationally and doing so with a gun that he was firing off at will. This is not the kind of behaviour we should entertain - I believe that the sympathy being spoken here is due to the fact that he was clearly an accomplished and well educated man and therefore could not have clearly understood his actions. The idea that he was under immense strain is also a bizarre excuse to allow someone to be firing off a gun in central London. Many people are under stress and strain but they do not resort to firing a gun... especially in a society such as Britain which does not welcome such types of behaviour. I wonder if the reaction would have been the same had the man in question been an uneducated individual on a Peckham estate. I suspect not.

9-May-2008

12:13 pm