Alberto Ramos forgives the NYPD for shooting him or, if you think about it, not shadowing Jeffrey Johnson until they could apprehend the killer without endangering the general public on a busy Manhattan street. So no City payout then, right? Now I’d like to know if any members of the family of Johnson’s victim have pondered whether or not the murdered man should have carried a gun to defend himself. Probably not. Not that Steven Ercolino could have carried, what with the Big Apple’s de facto concealed carry ban. Besides, Mayor Bloomberg and his political predecessors have suppressed the idea of armed self-defense for so long it probably never occurred to them—despite the fact that Ercolino went to the police about Johnson’s behavior. According to nytimes.com, “his family focused on the way he lived and not the way he died.”