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I hear what you're saying, and I agree...up to a point. This driver drove herself and a small child from Connecticut to DC and proceeded to do things that caused her to be regarded as a serious danger. There was no time to ponder and study and interview family members. This driver was hell-bent on causing trouble, possibly killing many people in the process. I am not saying that the police did the right thing, but I am saying that the driver made wrong choices over and over, leaving the police little choice but to stop her with as little loss of life as possible.

One life was lost, but her child's life was saved, as were the lives of all the other motorists and bystanders. Again, if she had been transporting explosives and had taken out a large group of people in a nearby building, I doubt we would be standing around now wringing out hands over the driver's purported mental state.

Again, if she had been transporting explosives and had taken out a large group of people in a nearby building, I doubt we would be standing around now wringing out hands over the driver's purported mental state.

That's what amazes me about the Monday morning quarterbacking that is going on today.

If the driver had been a man in his 20's, screaming "Allah Ahkbar!" as he drove through DC, the police would have never known it until the car was stopped.

Even if the only flammable substance in the car had been gasoline, the driver could have just turned the steering wheel slightly ad plowed through a group of pedestrians in or around the National Mall and the US Capitol.

If almost exactly the same scenario had played out with the adjustments I described above, but ended with deaths or serious injuries to innocent tourists, I believe many of the armchair quarterbacks would be screaming their heads off -- asking why the police didn't stop him when they had the chance.

This is the true nightmare scenario the Park Police has to consider every day. It would be devastating, and the resulting lockdown would make Obama's current petulant fit look like.... umm, child's play.

Thankfully, it's never happened. I hope our luck holds.

I hear what you’re saying, too-but my point was that the only difference between a possibly unhinged person behind the wheel at one of our cowboy roundups or apple festivals and one doing the same thing in DC is location. We have regular folks elected by the people-us-in DC, not kings and high nobility.

The end does not justify the means just because one is a tourist trap in BF Egypt and one is a tourist trap in DC-the people there are no better or more entitled to safety-or deserving of being shot dead-than those who live here, and their LEOs do not have any more right to kill people for fleeing than our county LEOs do if they are not shooting or throwing bombs-that is called wrongful death, and it merits a lawsuit and possibly prison time.

Why that woman drove from Conneticut, whether she could become a danger, what she wanted to do and all the rest is all just speculation at this point, and maybe forever if the facts are not uncovered.

If they thought she had explosives, then shooting would be really dumb-what have most homicide bombers done when they heard gunshots? Those cops did something most of are taught is a stupid thing to do-they made an ASSumption-never a good idea, and this time someone died-poor judgment, worst police work ever-no matter how much that family is awarded by a jury, it is not enough, in my opinion.

This driver was hell-bent on causing trouble, possibly killing many people in the process.

Whatever.

That Infinity sure had a strong nose, given those White House barriers it challenged!

The sheeple believe what the media tells them.