Posted on 04/08/2016 11:44:38 AM PDT by richardb72
Giving the guy a bit of a break, those who’ve been company commanders or first sergeants know that they know that there’s one screw-up in every crowd who will do something stupid.
Now, that’s no reason to take 2nd amendment rights away from everyone, but these guys grew up in a system where a slip-up with a screw-up cost you a career. They’re real sensitive to the screw-ups.
8 minutes?
A lot of non-necessarily lethal wounds can bleed out in 8 minutes.
I might ask him, does the term “microseconds expended to reach critical mass and beyond” rung a bell.
Another one of “those” I see.
Should his son or daughter, or grandson or granddaughter one day die or be seriously injured because of such a “adequate” response time...then we will see what he thinks.
Thing is...in 7-8 minutes the shooting, killing, and damage is usually already done.
You need good, armed people on the ground who are armed and who can start shooting back IMMEDIATELY.
Ditto.
Of course, for us it’s a lot easier to deal with things being as we’re two miles from the main road. Anyone in our yard who doesn’t belong here has two choices: Leave or die.
If it’s the latter we may well skip the messy paperwork and just feed the hogs with whatever we shoot so it doesn’t go to waste.
Heck, weren’t they right there?...............
What an amazing, lying, idiot, traitorous fool he is.
Maybe they think we should all have a cop in our pocket.
When one of these a-holes are up for investigation and bring up something like this "adequate response" lunacy, I wish one of the interrogators would stop him and play an 8-minute tape of a gunshot every 5 seconds and have heve everyone sit through the entire run. Then ask said a-hole if he still thinks eight minutes, or three, or four, our five . . . is "adequate".
What comes to mind is the old tale of a defense attorney claiming that his client couldn't have murdered the victim as "he was only there for three minutes". The prosecution asked the court to be silent for three minutes and let everyone's imagination do the rest. The guy was convicted.
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