Posted on 03/23/2008 12:13:02 PM PDT by Sammy67
Sunday, March 23, 2008
The 30-year-old mother of three jumped from her disabled SUV following a chase, holding a gun to her head to keep police back. Officers fired a stun gun but the nonlethal weapon was foiled by her heavy coat.
When she pointed her handgun at the two nearest deputies, officers switched to assault rifles, hitting Sarah Marie Stanfield of Boise eight times with bullets designed to break apart on impact to increase internal damage. She died last fall of multiple gunshot wounds.
Some jurisdictions across the U.S. have been arming rank-and-file officers with high-powered assault rifles for a decade or more. But law enforcement officials say that trend has accelerated in the last year because of greater numbers of shootouts, standoffs in which police were outgunned, rising officer deaths and mass shootings of civilians by heavily armed gunmen.
"If you get into a fire fight, you want to be
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And so it escalates and so more people will die on both sides.
Heaven forbid we should look to any societal causes of crime.
“When she pointed her handgun at the two nearest deputies, officers switched to assault rifles, hitting Sarah Marie Stanfield of Boise eight times with bullets designed to break apart on impact to increase internal damage.”
Um... sounds like they were using frangible rounds - which break apart on impact to avoid going through WALLS and killing innocent people if you miss.
Idiot reporters.
As for getting shot by the police?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8
No. They're designed to break apart rather then punching through to hit innocent bystanders!
I wonder if someone or something is influencing the dramatic increase in criminal gangs and civil unrest thats spreading across the country?
Switched to assault rifles? Ah, it’s my guess they had them at the ready and used them when the lives of the officers were on the line. This is what they should have done.
Point a weapon at an officer and you put your life in jeopardy.
There are going to be instances where I will not side with law enforcement, but this sure isn’t one of them.
This is an instance where the civilian escalated the situation to the point of causing their own death.
Why Sammy, what ever could cause such an occurrence in these formerly peacable United States?
I wouldn’t have described her as a civilian. Civilian’s are non-legitimate targets, she was a criminal....
Do what she say!
20 seconds!
such as?
Heaven forbid we should look to any societal causes of crime.
You look at those "societal causes" if you think you helped cause criminals to be criminals. I have looked, and have come to the conclusion that I have not done a single thing to make a single punk into a viscous criminal gunman. So, I'll take my chances with my gun against that kind -- like I have had to do three different times in civilian life.
No escalation, no shoot out, noone hurt.
You play at solving society's viscous-punk problem all you want -- I'll stick with taking care of me and mine the proven workable way.
” You look at those “societal causes” if you think you helped cause criminals to be criminals. I have looked, and have come to the conclusion that I have not done a single thing to make a single punk into a viscous criminal gunman.”
Thats an idiotic response.
The proliferation of good 5h!t subject to forfeiture?
Such as?
I’m not happy with the term civilian either. I don’t consider someone to be a criminal until they have been convicted of something. And who knows, she may have been previously.
I like the term perp here, and she was exhibiting criminal behavior to be sure.
Officers are also civilians. The public and the officers need to keep this in mind.
do i even respond? so cops do what they do in order to confiscate stuff like drugs and guns? only to destroy them?
Such as? Well poverty doesn’t cause crime for one. Lack of basic education has been shown to have an effect. Lack of morals and teaching of the same is, IMO, the largest factor. The breakdown of the family is probably right up there and perhaps associated with the lack of morals.
Drugs certainly lead to a lot of crime but the war on drugs sure hasn’t solved the problem. Its only resulted in America having the largest % of its population in prison of any modern country. Around 51% of people in federal prison are there because of drug convictions.
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