[the invisib1e hand]

woops on me for failing to discern the difference between a "service revolver" and whatever else is used to make one a "shooter."

Whatever it is, a bunch of them were used to put 42 bullets into a guy stopped early one Sunday morning on I 75. He was reaching for his registration.

Overzealous, steroid-saturated,power junkies is how I'd describe the Pinellas County Sheriff's Department. I wouldn't trust them with your goods, much less mine.

[sig226]

I don't know about the incident on I - 75, but the truth is we live in a world in which we need to have armed men riding around to deal with armed lunatics who rob banks, shoot their wives, and kill cops.

Do I like it? No.

A wise cop told me that you don't know why the cop pulled you over. Your description could match anything. Maybe a white guy with short, blonde hair in a brown Infiniti just shot five people in Lake Worth. Maybe the cop just had some idiot pull a knife on him and he's on hair trigger.

Maybe the guy's wife just left him and he's having a bad day at work, only when I have a bad day, I take it out on the boxes in the warehouse I run. The cop has to deal with people who usually aren't happy to see him.

I'm not justifying the shooting based on this, but when people get hired as cops, they don't become perfect. Their first priority is to survive the shift. Sometimes they screw up and an innocent person gets hurt. Sometimes they screw up and they don't survive the shift.

[sig226]

BTW, I was an EMT for many years. I will trade absurd medical airlift stories with you some day.