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Not all laws may permit the use of deadly force, but every encounter with the police implicitly does.

The line between being pulled over for a minor infraction, and making an officer fear for his life is a very blurry one.

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Except that the implication here is that the laws precipitate the use of lethal force. You may not be guilty (or suspected to be guilty) of anything in the eyes of the law and face the prospect of lethal force, considering police have investigatory powers. The laws aren't the problem here (I think there are problems with the laws and penalties in other regards, but that's a separate matter), its the wide berth we give to police to enact deadly force.

>Except that the implication here is that the laws precipitate the use of lethal forc

Which they do by proxy.

Get a simple ticket and don't pay it or show up for court and it can become a bench warrant in which the cops can go arrest you. Serving warrants is a dangerous event, as in some percentage of the time the served fight back violently.

The only power police have is the power of violence.

In my country (Belgium) no one would make that association. As far as I know, there has been one policr officer killed violently on duty in the past decade, and that was in a confrontation with organized crime.

There's something weird with the culture of violence in the US.

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