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The victims, the victims' families, anybody that has that job or an adjacent one, anybody that read about it, anybody that also works in law enforcement and now is splashed with the paint of that legendary insensitivity purely by association.
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It may well be a regional saying. In parts of the south when one woman might want to criticize another the first might say "Bless her soul" meaning that woman 2 is as dumb as a sack of sand. It might also be the cop's way of blocking his own emotional reaction.
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Now that we know that some people deal with a bad day by taking out their assault rifle and assassinating other people, maybe lets make sure that they don't have an assault rifle to take out? It's hard to think of anybody whose days won't be better after we do that.