Co Founder of the Company That Makes the Oculus Rift Hit By a Car and Killed During Police Chase

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Hey you,

stop defending the cops just because they're authority figures. They ran a high speed chase in a populated area. Forget partially, as far as I'm concerned, they're wholly responsible.

Followed by blah blah blah. I'm pretty ticked at you for this statement, but I'm not elaborating in this thread. It's in very poor taste, which was my original point.

How incredibly sad that in a thread that's focused on the death of an important figure of technology, not just gaming, people feel the need to attack cops. Just like every other bloody crime thread.

How incredibly sad that "respect for the dead" has a way of letting people die in vain, rather than be the firebrand for reform that can prevent it from happening again. If you wait until it's no longer a news story, it's no longer news, which means we're back to square one. You see it every time a mass shooting happens -- the NRA types go all "well let's not talk about gun control now, we need to respect the dead," and by the time whatever "respect" period is over, we've all moved onto some new issue, and gun control is once again dead in the water. Same thing, except the cops don't actually have a constitutional right to chase criminals through populated areas.