Thanks, Ansel, good reporting.

Could you lock yourself in with Pearson, ask him to explain why he thinks this is outside the charter, and publish either some substantive response, or a verbatim transcript of him dodging the question fifteen times?

"The task force's third meeting is scheduled for September 13, at 8 a.m. on the Capitol campus in Olympia. Pearson, who walked out of the last meeting early, told me on his way out he was "not sure" if the task force would ever discuss the state law on deadly force." Is this really an issue? If so, then lets ask the families of Sergeant Mark Renniger, Officer Tina Griswold, Officer Ronald Owens, Greg Richards who were ambused in a coffee shop in November 2009 to attend? No? Ok, how about the family of Officer Tim Brenton who was slaughtered in his police car on Halloween of the same year? For those of us who remember them and know the realities of having family members in uniform who are out numbered in both street weaponry and population, we will back whatever actions the police take in the line of duty. And anyone with any intelligence, experience, or even common sense will agree. The average cop doesnt personally know the average "Joe Plumber" on the street and the average cop knows these preceding facts. Governments can create taxpayer-funded task forces and "community oversight committees" until the cows come home to suck you pocket books dry with political correctness. Governments can create an entire convention center full of chair warming sessions pretending to know the realities of the facts above - but it wont change a thing - except waster more money that you as a taxpayer probably dont have. As long as we're a gun-loving country, there are going to be more gun lovers. Some wont be responsible and will have the potential for being pretty much down right crazy. All it takes it a divorce, job loss, lack of medication to cause that snap to occur and create a rampage. I guess we could make it difficult to use deadly force and create lots of laws and bills and other paper and time wastes of money to appease people. But ask yourself this: If your the victim of a strong arm crime and you shoot the perpetrator in the leg while he's waving a gun, do you really think he - or she - is not going to shoot back - especially if its a last great act of defiance in his -or her - life?