Today's Eternal Sadness

WaPo:

Police say they saw an object in Stephan Clark’s hand before they fired 20 bullets that killed him in his back yard Sunday night in Sacramento, a disturbing moment that was made public through body camera footage released Wednesday night.

The two officers were responding to a 911 call about a man breaking vehicle windows when they encountered, then killed, Clark, an unarmed black man.
Two things get stuck in my mind. I guess the main thing is this: 

Why are the cops so afraid that everybody has a gun? 

But the second big thing in my mind is: Why do the Press Poodles never ask that question at the news conference as the authorities try to explain that killing an unarmed citizen was somehow the only viable option at the time?

And a third one comes to mind as well - why don't the cops do some more to support initiatives that might make it less likely that they'll have to kill somebody with their guns, by making it less likely that someone will kill them with a gun?

Genius is not required to figure out that gun violence has something to do with guns.

Without cars, nobody dies in a car crash

Without airplanes, nobody dies in a plane crash

Nobody gets killed by hand-thrown bullets