Why is our knee-jerk reaction to blame black men with guns?

It’s really weird seeing otherwise pro-gun conservatives attack the rights of black men who are pulled over and then mistreated or killed by police. They owned a gun. So what? Nothing in either bodycam footage shows the gun was used to threaten the officers at either scene. There is also the idea that getting upset about black men being shot and killed by police is strange when there are so many more white men who are killed by police... This, too, is odd. We should be striving for as few deaths as possible during altercations with the police. We shouldn’t dismiss some of them because they don’t happen as often as others. It should all be unacceptable. It seems very strange that we are framing arguments so that they can best support the police when the entire idea of conservatism is to limit the size and scope of government, and that includes its law enforcement arms. Police do have tough jobs, and they are at times in very dangerous situations that require tough judgment calls. But, more and more, we’re seeing some of those calls are the wrong ones, and we have got to do a better job of keeping the police as the police, and not as judge, jury, and executioner.