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So this is what we have come to in America. Those hired to protect and serve us are now shooting at van full of children.

Regardless of whether or not the police officer may have thought the children could have been kidnapped or not, and regardless of the fact that the lady did violate a traffic law, nothing in my mind convinces me that the van would ever had outrun the police car.

Let's say she headed South to the border just some 50 miles away. I am sure they would have had more than enough police cars to stop her long before she got to the border. Which by the way it seems she went to a motel instead. After the fact we learn she had drug paraphernalia. What? A crack pipe or something?

Whats the lesson for us? The lesson is that the government, whether it be the City, County, State, or federal, have all become way too powerful for my taste.

Then we have some fellow Freepers defending the idea that shooting at a van full of children is the proper way to handle this situation.

What do you think would have been the reaction if when a drunk President, Ulysses S Grant, refused to stop for authorities while dangerously racing down 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, that the officer then pulled out his handgun and shot at the spokes of his wheels to stop him? After all. It wasn't until after he stopped that they realized who he was.

No, I am very troubled by our modern day society that stops citizens from defending themselves with guns when threatened, yet the same government will shoot at a van full of children because the driver refused to pay a fine or accept a summons to show up in court at a later date, and instead sped off in anger.

Regardless of the outcome in this case, it is all another example of the police state we now live in.

America, "Land of the Free my ASS!

>> nothing in my mind convinces me that the van would ever had outrun the police car... I am sure they would have had more than enough police cars to stop her long before she got to the border.

Follow that thought to its logical end. How would it have ended? In her attempt to run off the road around a roadblock, rolling the van and killing all inside? Her inflamed 14 year old rushing a cop? Plowing into an “innocent” officer or two at the roadblock? Veering into an “innocent” family of tourists in a station wagon?

What’s YOUR version?