SWORD PING!...
(and other metal bladed thingees)
Samurai stuff! *grin*
Posted on 12/03/2014 8:55:50 PM PST by Altariel
Psychiatric patients do not take their medications because they have a THOUGHT disorder and do not think clearly or logically. For many people psychiatric medications are uncomfortable to take, and they feel like they are wearing a mental straightjacket.
Not too many people will voluntarily put on a straightjacket every morning.
The reason these poor souls are shot and killed , and the many others like them who are uncared for, preyed upon, or who prey on others, can be laid directly at the feet of the leftists who emptied out the mental institutions and homes for the mentally retarded.
The same people who have made it nigh unto impossible for families to get treatment for their mentally ill members.
When some poor mentally ill soul is killed or dies on the streets in your area, call up and thank all the leftist judges, lawyers and politicians.
Hell - I’m 62 and am willing to bet that I could have subdued him, without help and without killing him. This kind of thing seems to happen far more often than the good shoots that get the Blacks all het up.
When he started swinging a machete, why couldn’t the cops just back away instead of firing? Unless he was charging them I don’t see the need for deadly force.
Urban legend.
They could have backed away. But I think it became a life or death situation after one officer had been bloodied and the person with the machete was in the middle of a back swing in attempt to inflict further damage.
We’re talking microseconds here. The officers were attempting to collar him and take away his weapon. Their natural reaction was to switch from an offensive to a defensive position to protect their lives when attacked.
Again, the circumstances surrounding this incident should never have led to a life or death confrontation. There is blame on both sides.
Another imaginary SWAT raid: Woman steps off the curb before the traffic light changes, SWAT team drags her down and beats her up.
Well said.
There usually IS blame on both sides. Microseconds. Many people have tremendous bias, on whichever side, and blame one side or another without even knowing the full story.
Monday morning quarterbacks.
Another imaginary SWAT raid: Child cries in a restaurant and parents can’t get him to be quiet. SWAT team beats up parents and leaves child alone.
Now with the Gub'mint in charge of our health (they can force you to carry health insurance), I wonder how far they will go to ensure that one "follows the doctor's orders"?...
You’ve hit the nail on the head.
If you work for the gub'ment that is...
Or you can just kill a guy who has locked himself in a room with a weapon...
He might hurt himself so you guys shoot him....for his own safety.
The details you gave do paint a different picture of the story. Tough call on this one.
There has to be a compromise somewhere. On the one hand, people shouldn’t be locked up based only on a family member’s say-so. That’s a power that could be abused. Most people suffering from mental illness (manic depression, etc.) are not a danger to anyone. On the other hand, some people (like this man) really are a danger to themselves and other people.
I grew up in a town that was the location of a “state hospital.” Outpatients were placed in the community. It was an interesting place to live, to say the least, with the occasional pedestrian breaking into dance in the middle of the street, or some stranger walking up to you and saying something totally off-the-wall.
But some of my high school classmates also were committed there from time to time, too, by their families for things like drug abuse, for example.
This is why you should take your medication
Government employee logic!
Well I read it. Just because some liberal judge made some ruling, does not mean that I have to call the cops. I would deal with my relative myself, or have someone he had a good relationship with to help me.
If the person happens to be under treatment, I might also talk to them for advice. How exactly do people think a cop is going to get some one to take their meds? Pull a gun and threaten them? Do a take down, and give them a shot? It’s just not an intelligent thing to do, and more often than not, in the case I know about, it ends badly.
They shot this guy with bean bag rounds first but that did not work. The toxicology details might be interesting.
A few years ago in Odessa-—20 odd miles west-— a couple in their fifties had another fight and wife called the cops about her darling hubby who was combining his cancer and pain drugs with liquor. Three street cops got there and this guy White killed all three of them with a shotgun.
The Midland Sheriff office had their negotiator dude murdered in October and two other counties in this area had a car thief kill a deputy and a sex pervert kill a deputy so I reckon they are getting kind of worried sometimes.
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