I am in a city of 25,000 with no gunfights in the 100 year history. A cop did shoot a dog, wounding it. A cop did shoot a bank robber in the hip. Some unknown person shot a deer with a pellet gun.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps