Katie 'Oakley'? Couric Suggests Air Marshals Shoot at Specific Body Parts (Clueless Katie Alert!)

NewsBusters.com ^ | December 8, 2005 | Mark Finkelstein

[Spunky]

And I keep hearing that CBS News is offering her 20 million to anchor their news. In the first place she would never be able to stop giggling long enough to report anything.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Did she have her glasses on during this interview? Because she wears those hideous glasses when she wants to *appear* smart. Or did she just twist her hair and cross and uncross her legs and giggle? Because she does that when she wants to *flirt* with her guest just before she comes in with the kill.

I really despise that twit.

[rdcorso]

When an officer fires his gun he does it to stop a suspect who is a deadly threat to the people around him.If the officer only tried to wound a suspect it would make people doubt that a life was in imminent danger.He can only use deadly force to save his own life or the lives of other people.

[joe fonebone]

My grampa was a Detroit cop....he always said " don't pull your gun unless you are going to shoot it, and you always shoot to kill " enough said.

[bcsco]

Your final statement is essentially the point I've made in a couple replies to other posts on this topic (the air marshal shooting). The wife is responsible for his being on the plane. She obviously knew he had not taken his meds, thus either she should have insisted they apply for a later flight (after he'd taken his meds and had time for them to take effect) or notified airline authorities of the potential problem and let them make the proper decision. No way should he have been allowed to be on that plane.

Regarding the use of firearms, I've used them almost all my life (I'm 62) although never against another human being. However, whenever I pulled the trigger I was consciously aware I was going to kill whatever animal I was aiming at. A person who shoots to wound rather than kill is a fool and doesn't deserve to have a firearm in their possession. The air marshal's response to Couric basically stated that in a nice way. She apparently was just too dumb to pick up on it. Sheesh, what an airhead.

[rlmorel]

"God Almighty, Katie Couric is STUPID! Perky, but incredibly stupid. How did this brainless, vapid, intellectually and morally bankrupt cheerleader get a job that pays her millions to proclaim her idiocy on TV?"




Precisely because she is perky, incredibly stupid, brainless, vapid, intellectually bankrupt, morally bankrupt and a cheerleader.

But she can look kind of cute when you don't see all the mascara, and...she does show her inner bowels on TV for a good cause, so she does have some redeeming qualities.

[DHak]

Shoot a specific body part....Center of Mass

[Reactionary]

Katie displays all of the brainpower of the common gnat.

She needs to be in charge of the entire television network.

[pepperdog]

Maybe not the stupidest woman alive, but undoubtedly the stupidest woman whose utterances are daily inflicted upon the public.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

I agree center of mass! But if they have submit to a stupid rule that Katie suggests, make that body-part the HEAD!

[kenth]

We still need those safer bullets.



Katie seems to be upset that a potential bomber was stopped. He won't be bombing anything now and that saddens her.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Further proof (if any were needed) that "liberalism is a mental disorder".

[DMZFrank]

Stictly speaking, LEO's are not trained to shoot to kill. They are trained to place their rounds in those areas of the body that are likely to cause the offender to cease those actions which justify the employment of deadly force in the first place. In other words, they shoot to stop the offender. The distinction may seem trivial but it is vital that the officer, when articulating a justification for the use of deadly force never say that they shot to kill the offender but to stop him. This minimizes the possibility of lawsuit for excessive use of force or even criminal charges, particularly by overzealous prosecutors. I was a certified police firearms training instructor and I always stressed this point. I told them that if the offender dies as an incidental result of your shooting to stop his deadly actions then that's OK. Just make sure that you never say you were shooting to kill. That's what soldiers are allowed to do in combat, not cops.

Speaking of hard to kill offenders, I was involved in a shooting in which the offender took four 12 gauge shotgun rounds to the torso and eight 9 mm rounds to the torso, arms and legs, from a range of 20 feet; all the while shooting back at us the whole time he was getting shot up. When he finally fell to the ground he was still trying to crawl over to his dropped gun. He survived after losing yards of small intestine, his lower right arm, and his masculine plumbing.

I had a platoon sergeant in Vietnam got a distinguished service Cross for continuing to lead his platoon for a half-hour after he took three rounds from an RPD light machine-gun in the chest. I really these stories just to show how hard it can be to kill human beings.