Near the end of the movie, police officer John Blake says "systems become shackles". The movie could not better illustrate this point. When evil decides to destroy Gotham City, the movie showed the now default responses of governments - do not negotiate with terrorists, and stand down (holding perimeter) in a hostage situation to avoid risking lives. Police engaged in massive but strategically useless and dangerous actions that presented the opportunity to eliminate the entire city police department. These are to be a disastrous course of actions and that's why Batman must save the day.
Back to the Batman shooting, there is a most ironic link. Both scenarios have entire lots of helpless and unarmed people, unable to decide their fates in the face of overwhelming firepower. But unlike the movie, there was no Batman to save the citizens from the dangerous criminal - only the police to clean up afterwards. Neither scenarios would have been possible had there been upstanding citizens with arms.
But what do I know - it does make it fun for some people.
Back to the Batman shooting, there is a most ironic link. Both scenarios have entire lots of helpless and unarmed people, unable to decide their fates in the face of overwhelming firepower. But unlike the movie, there was no Batman to save the citizens from the dangerous criminal - only the police to clean up afterwards. Neither scenarios would have been possible had there been upstanding citizens with arms.
But what do I know - it does make it fun for some people.
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