[blackdog]

I have no anti-LEO slant. As a matter of fact, I say I support them in a manner closer to their own interests. It's just a bank and it's just money. C'mon, Enron executives stole a thousand times what is stolen from banks during retail robberies. If robbery justifies gunfire, go shoot up the boardrooms of America's corporations!

Get rid of armed guards inside the banks too. A criminal does not just go into a place and starts shooting up the place just for fun?

That situation in LA which was a great movie by the way, was caused by armed intervention. The response was just more than the interventionists bargained for, and was something the criminals had prepared for.

[TChris]

If robbery justifies gunfire, go shoot up the boardrooms of America's corporations!

If I couldn't comprehend the difference between robbery and theft or embezzlement, then I'd buy a good dictionary.

A criminal does not just go into a place and starts shooting up the place just for fun?

Is that a question?

I'd say that bank robbers shoot up the place to get money, eliminate witnesses and suppress resistance. Maybe I'm wrong.

That situation in LA which was a great movie by the way, was caused by armed intervention.

Fascinating! So, the correct answer to increasing bank robberies is... Do nothing! Hell, put out a neon sign advertising the fact. That way, the robbers will just leave their guns home and won't hurt anyone. Maybe we could even bus them to the banks so the low-income robbers would have an equal chance. Better yet, why not just have them sign up for the program over the Internet, and deliver the cash to their door! That's real service.

Why aren't you a criminology professor? You could have the whole country's crime problems solved in a day or two!