I waited some days to mull this over. But the more I think about Dallas, and I mourn for our fallen police, but the worst thing to come out of this is the way the suspect was eliminated. Blowing up the sniper in Dallas was not OK. Sure the active shooter event had to be ended. But If they could deliver a bomb and blow his up, they could have loaded a stun grenade. Can't they make a taser drone? or pelted him from drones with rubber bullets? dropped a smoke grenade? No, there was a mindset to break this taboo and use military hardware on our soil. After the Rodney King L.A. riots a few decades ago, conservative whites who own guns against the government also said the military should have been used to put down the riots. NOT EXACTLY GETTING THE POINT.... But it was Bush who militarized the cops. With the patriot act, he also brought in fear and the corporate solution to the fear he incited, the security state. He also dumped government money into police departments that they could use only to buy up military hardware from the corporate military industrial complex. Then when Obama was elected, the conservatives fanned the smoldering embers of racism into outright flames. Of course combine racism and militarized cops along with an armed public thanks to NRA insanity and the police are terrified and angry that anyone out there might have a gun. And with stand your ground and some actual KKK police departments, shootings of blacks is the new lynching. The shooter in Dallas was so very wrong, but if he was white, they might have taken him alive. I am sure there WERE ways to take him alive... including cordoning off the area and waiting him out... like they did with the white morons asking for snack and socks. Why did they not send in the drones on a whole enclave of dangerous folks? Well, that taboo has been broken now, The genie will not go back in the bottle. The drone have been used on people on our soil, military equipment has taken life without a trial. People said I was a nutter in 2002 when I said that post Bush America would be a very dark place... This will not end well.