First and foremost: fuck, I'm glad you're alive. So sorry for you and Renee. It takes a few foot pounds of pressure to pull a rigger and these shits know it. Combine bright, pulsating lights, loud static on radios and adrenaline, and the pull of a trigger, which would have led to the pull of other triggers could have happened.
Second, as a life-long liberal I've had to ask myself: if a populist asshole got hold of the Democratic Party and ran as an autocrat, promising a liberal Valhalla and to crush all enemies, what would I do? Would I put my party over my country in some fucked-up costs/benefit analysis? I can only hope that I would do as you have done, with the character, commitment and courage on the trail you've blazed.
We can argue about guns and police culture later. Steady on, and Semper Paratus.
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