RRDH, I'm quite left wing, but I don't think political rivalries enter the debate here.

I can see why the US police sometimes have itchy trigger fingers (although not in this case, as it appears that the poor man has been bullied until he broke, then shot by a police officer with a superiority complex): 65 US officers were killed by guns in 2016, therefore the police must be nervous when they attend many incidents. Is this because, potentially, the folk they might be facing also could have guns?

The argument might be about the right to bear arms in the states, although that won't be changing any time soon, or maybe any time at all. But the 'right' is an anachronism, from the days of the cowboys and indians: perhaps some form of adaptation of the gun laws are needed?

In concluding, I've been as drunk as that poor guy too, and if asked to do what he was, given my nature, it's likely I'd have been dead much earlier.