Have We learned Nothing in the 23 Years Since the Rodney King Riots?

Townhall.com ^ | August 20, 2014 | Bob Barr

[driftless2]

If only the authorities had used all this firepower on the rioters. What kind of country allows criminals, looters, rioters to rampage for over a week? The National Guard should have been called in at the first sign of mass lawbreaking. Strict procedures, arresting rioters, shooting looters, should have been employed. Barr is way off base here. He should be asking why only one segment of the population commits so much crime and why they riot and loot at the drop of a hat.

[polymuser]

Yes, agree fully. And (falsely) guilt-ridden whites play right into it. Whites won’t speak many truths.

[factoryrat]

What we have learned is that blacks are strictly “hands off” when it comes to law enforcement, and that the obama administration will sic the holder DOJ on anyone who questions that policy. This policy will also apply to illegal mexicans and other central americans even more so, as they have overtaken blacks as the largest minority block in the US.

Welcome to the “balkanization” of the US, where divide and conquer are par for the course.

[Vaduz]

My the progressives have done such a great job in the last 23 years.

/s

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***And we learned to keep some firepower in the glove dept.***

I dumped my six shot single action revolver and went to a 13 shot Browning Hi-Power after the riots in 1967-1968.

[bgill]

The only thing I’ve learned since Rodney King is that one legged looters can run on one leg with a couch on their heads.

[dfwgator]

I also learned bricks can do a lot of damage to one’s head.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Especially since he was high on Angel Dust. Tazers didn’t work, night sticks didn’t work, finally they got him down.

Then George W W Bush had to open his trap after seeing the edited news reports on it.

[A Navy Vet]

I learned something from the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles back in 1992 having witnessed it from ground zero:

The LEO's backed away;
so the barbarians had a field day.

With Korean guns on the rooftop;
it drew a line where the savages would stop!

As the saying goes, "When seconds count, the police are minutes away or sometimes hours/days away. The National Guard took days to arrive to calm the LA anarchy.

I'm just glad these scum-suckers stick to their self-created crappy 'hoods. The first time they go into white suburbs, I KNOW from personal conversations they will experience the same rooftop resistance and probably worse. Tear gas will not be the choice of resistance...

[jospehm20]

I learned that if property owners shoot looters, their property is generally left alone.

[Augustinian monk]

I keep a Judge loaded with 410 slugs. Don’t want to worry about a semi-auto jamming.

[steve8714]

Waco is a bad analogy, it’s more a co-opting of local law enforcement by the Feds.

[pluvmantelo]

I think the lady who writes The Canning Column for the local rag is the only journalist in America who hasn’t weighed in on Ferguson. Enough already.