The Unarmed Dead

Have you ever had the feeling that the police are killing unarmed Americans about once a week? The unarmed dead are in the news constantly, or so it seems. But does that reflect reality? Now the Washington Post has published a study of American police killings of totally unarmed citizens (people not even armed with toys, broomsticks or balloons), and the number of dead comes to about one a week. Oddly enough a disproportionate segment of these unarmed dead are African-Americans. So far the NRA has no program to get these people some guns.