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Anybody Else Disturbed by the Dallas use of the "Bomb Robot"?
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Posted on 07/08/2016 11:15:33 AM PDT by Rinnwald

“We saw no other option than to use our bomb robot and place a device on its extension to detonate where the suspect was”


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To: Rinnwald

A suitable alternative to the bomb would have been a flamethrower!


141 posted on 07/08/2016 12:12:59 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: Rinnwald

A suitable alternative to the bomb would have been a flamethrower!


142 posted on 07/08/2016 12:12:59 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: Rinnwald

A suitable alternative to the bomb would have been a flamethrower!


143 posted on 07/08/2016 12:13:15 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: Rinnwald

Why not use a flamethrower?


144 posted on 07/08/2016 12:15:14 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: P-Marlowe
Are the people here who are willing to tie the hands of local law enforcement on the weapons they can use willing to defer to others the decision on what kind of weapon they can use under similar situations?

I truly embrace your argument. If police are allowed to use lethal explosives, so should the general populace.

The fact that they can't is sort of my point.

145 posted on 07/08/2016 12:15:20 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Rinnwald

Why not use a flamethrower?


146 posted on 07/08/2016 12:15:30 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: Rinnwald

Why not use a flamethrower?


147 posted on 07/08/2016 12:15:30 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: Rinnwald

Why not use a flamethrower?


148 posted on 07/08/2016 12:15:56 PM PDT by LaMudBug
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Not really, it’s usage was ordered by a black police chief. 8>)


149 posted on 07/08/2016 12:16:40 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: vette6387

I thought it was genius.

Frankly I would have been very proud if the cops had gone down to the nearest National Guard Armory and requisitioned a hand grenade, gone to wall mart and requisitioned a remote control pick up truck, taken them to the scene, pulled the pin, dropped it into the back of the toy truck and drove it to the area where the perp was holed up.

I’m kinda hoping that is how they pulled it off. I suspect they may have had a ready made bomb robot, but either way it was ingeneous.


150 posted on 07/08/2016 12:17:05 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: LaMudBug
A suitable alternative to the bomb would have been a flamethrower!

A suitable alternative to hitting the post button six times would have been hitting it once.

151 posted on 07/08/2016 12:17:45 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Rinnwald

Bullets are explosives. They killed 5 cops yesterday. The police bomb only killed one person. I suppose you would have preferred that a couple more cops got killed as long as they used non-military style weapons.


152 posted on 07/08/2016 12:20:08 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: nitzy

We don’t know. A 6th(?) floor parking garage could have a very extensive field of fire including nearby buildings.
Waiting for dehydration to impair the suspect would be very difficult in that case.
But the point is that the danger to the public is the central factor to be considered.

It’s interesting to consider this in terms of Posse Comitatus theory too.
If a bomb ‘IS’ needed is it better overall for Posse Comitatus to be suspended or weakened so the bomb can be delivered by a military force instead of the police?


153 posted on 07/08/2016 12:21:26 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Rinnwald

He was armed and dangerous.


154 posted on 07/08/2016 12:21:53 PM PDT by tiki
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To: LaMudBug
>>>> Why not use a flamethrower? <<<<

Just 'cuz the price of fuel is still lower than it was a few years ago, don't mean anybody should go runnin' 'round Big D wasting the stuff on criminals.

155 posted on 07/08/2016 12:22:09 PM PDT by 7MMmag ( ...itty-bitty hole goin' in, big hole goin' out. bullets that spin and explode sold separately)
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To: Rinnwald

Not disturbed at all. If the police decide to stop doing their jobs due to political pressures, then I’d be disturbed.


156 posted on 07/08/2016 12:24:00 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft.)
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To: LaMudBug
Why not use a flamethrower?

I guess we're up to nine times now. Lay off the caffeine before using that flamethrower, Chief.

And, if you want a serious answer. Use of flamethrowers is precluded by horror from the general public. In my mind, they are at least more directional than bombs, and versions of flamethrowers are available to the general public. So, yeah, they are better than bombs in the police arsenal, IMHO.

157 posted on 07/08/2016 12:24:08 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: vette6387

“explosive device”

The bad guy must have not been near other people unless the explosive device was highly directional and controllable.


158 posted on 07/08/2016 12:24:41 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Rinnwald

Not in the least.


159 posted on 07/08/2016 12:25:24 PM PDT by philetus (Keep doing what you always do and you'll eventually get what you deserve)
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To: al baby
>>>> Until one comes to your house and blows up your dog <<<<<

Officer friendly robot says


160 posted on 07/08/2016 12:25:43 PM PDT by 7MMmag ( ...itty-bitty hole goin' in, big hole goin' out. bullets that spin and explode sold separately)
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