Posted on 02/26/2017 12:54:41 PM PST by COBOL2Java
As we write this thank you letter, we want to take this opportunity to offer each and every one of you our deepest and most sincere appreciation for your magnificent support. As we quickly realized, Ashley’s death was not only a family tragedy, but a community tragedy, as well, as it was felt throughout your own and many more communities, far and beyond.
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Pentagon employee suspected in killing of rookie officer Ashley Guindon, wife held without bail
Heartbreaking and sad. Look at those first two photos and then the last one as a girl should be. I know it’s not popular, but Americas little girls have been sold a bill of goods that they should gravitate to men’s jobs of battle and conflict and violence.
America needed someone like her creating a home, having babies, not out in a gunfight.
2+2=4 always does.
According to your links, Officer Ashley Marie Guindon was killed on her very first day on the job. This is so sad.
Her killer will eventually be executed, I suppose. But that will take decades.
Seriously?
My daughter is a LEO too, and a good one. It was her dream from childhood.
Oh, and she’s also a wife and mother.
Good for your daughter, following her head and heart.
Why would someone creating a home, having babies need a degree?
Thoughts and prayers for her family.
Yeah, seriously. It’s not good for women to try to be come the dispensers of violence in society. For them and for our country.
There’s a reason they weren’t storming Normandy or chasing down John Dillinger.
Why? To make them more educated, well rounded, and at college they might meet a good guy.
This is his wife that was also murdered by him:
Crystal Hamilton, 29, was also fatally shot by her husband before police arrived, Hudson said. The officers were shot shortly after their arrival, and when additional officers arrived, Hamilton surrendered and came out the front door of the house.
Police said their 11-year-old son was at home at the time of the shootings. He is now being cared for by relatives. Police recovered two guns from the scene: a handgun and a rifle.
The injured officers were identified as Jesse Hempen, 31, an eight-year veteran of department; and David McKeown, 33, a 10-year veteran. They are expected to recover, Hudson said. Details about their injuries were not released.
Officer Brandon Carpenter at the county's adult detention center says Hamilton is being held without bond at the jail on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer, first-degree murder charge, two counts of malicious assault and two counts of use of a firearm during a felony.
Life after the babies are grown perhaps? Just because a woman decides to become a homemaker does not mean she has to be uneducated. Not does it mean she has to be strictly a homemaker for her entire life.
Ah. The MRS degree.
I shoulda known that’s where you were coming from.
I agree with your post # 2 and this post.
I also understand someone being proud of their daughter as an LEO or even a truck driver. My daughter is a CPA and I am very proud of her.
Finally, I think women historically have performed certain “LEO” functions better than men. So, being an “LEO” to me is not the issue.
Why can’t “sanity” and “common sense” prevail here. Women should not be out on the streets and alleys of America engaging in shootouts and knife fights and fist fights with violent men sometimes many times their strength. It’s stupid beyond belief. It’s almost as stupid as Cuomo arguing for 12 year old girls to chill out about seeing grown men’s penis’s.
“One-year anniversary.”
They mean “first anniversary.”
Its good to have some around to talk to rape victims, little kids, and in some supporting organizing areas. But in the main, you don’t want a waif running into a bar fight, or fighting life or death grappling on the side of a road. It’s not even easy for men.
I very much understand someone being proud of their daughter. But we will never get out of the fiction of the “amazon” mentality until we stop pushing man things on Americas daughters.
We say all the right things, and pretend its true. Everyone is buffaloed into keeping quiet about the truth. But the cold hard fact is that an all woman marine division could have never taken Iwo Jima, Hue, Fallujah, or walked out of the Chosin. We all know it. To the extent you put women in combat arms or support units very close behind, you degrade that unit.
Think Jessica Lynch.
And in those man oriented professions, you develop a hardness that hurts decent men. It’s even more destructive to women. I don’t recommend a girl waste her 20s running around with guns, burning up her fertile years.
America needs the feminine tender side back. We don’t need woman Grunts and Cops, and we don’t need that Ashley Judd and her nasty woman BS.
If you fly into a metropolis like LA, Atlanta, or New York at night, look out the window. Mine is just the opinion of one little set of headlights out there. But I don’t think I’m alone.
“It’s almost as stupid as Cuomo arguing for 12 year old girls to chill out about seeing grown men’s penis’s.”
Flip side of the same progressive coin.
Honestly, I look at those pics of that nice little girl, who by all accounts was absolutely wonderful as a person. And I shake my head in disbelief that people don’t wish she was teaching their kids or something else instead of going to a violent call like that.
We lose a valuable thing when we lose our young girls in such a manner.
It’s very sad.
Although the details aren't given in this story, it was a domestic dispute situation. The common strategy in those cases is to send a female LEO with the male so that the female can speak to the woman involved in the dispute. They separate the two and try to piece together what's going on.
What happened in this case is, it all went bad fast. Hamilton, furious at his wife's 911 call, shot and killed her (in front of their 11-year-old son, BTW), and then turned his weapon on the police.
Evidently there are some who might prefer that females remain "barefoot and pregnant" as the little wife, maybe be permitted by their fathers to go to college to get an "MRS Degree" (I LOL'd at that, BenLurkin) so they could find a husband - again, to keep them at home - but women can serve some critical functions in emergency situations.
Another time, they went on call to an elderly woman with alzheimer's who'd been reported missing. The cops contacted her ambulance: they found the woman sitting on a grassy highway divider. My daughter and her male ER companion went to get the woman. When they arrived, they found the woman confused and frightened. The cop was yelling at her to get up. My daughter's friend tried to convince the woman to come with her. The two males were standing over her, talking down to the frightened and confused lady.
My daughter, sizing up the situation, did something different: she sat down next to her. "Hi, I'm [my daughter's name]. Are you OK?"
"I want to go home." The woman told her.
"I can help you. Will you come with me?" And reached out her hand.
"OK." And took my daughter's hand. They got up and walked to the ambulance, to the amazement of the cop and my daughter's partner.
I agree with you, Cen-Tejas. "Sanity" and "common sense" are rare. Women don't belong in streets and alleys engaging in shootouts and knife fights and fist fights with violent men. But they can serve a purpose - if they choose - beyond being the "little woman" doing nothing besides being Beaver's Mom. This isn't the 50's anymore. (not saying that's you, Cen-Tejas)
Oh, and BTW, my daughter is raising four wonderful kids, and they couldn't be prouder of having a nurse and paramedic for a mother.
100% agree.
Awesome stories! I agree with u totally on your remarks. Sensitive situations involving females (half the population), on the whole, are better handled by another female (cop).
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