Re: “,” Nov. 10 news story.
On Nov. 10, a bank was robbed on the 16th Street Mall in Denver. This is an area where 100,000 people work every day, and there are thousands more tourists and shoppers. The robber ran down an alley. A police officer fired a number of shots, killing the robber.
Yes, I’m glad the robber was caught. But it’s unbelievably bad judgment to just start firing bullets in the very middle of this beehive of activity. Bullets that miss continue on their wayward way, zinging and ricocheting and skipping off the ground and caroming off objects. This is in the same area occupied by our unsuspecting fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and cousins and grandparents and friends.
How did we devolve as a species to value that bag of money over innocent people who want to leave the house in the morning and return intact in the evening? That’s not a rhetorical question. Sincerely. How did we get there?
DZᲹܲ, Golden
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