I can't argue with that.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/31/2010 10:37:34 AM PST by pillut48
Pearland police said the men held up the Chase Bank in the 1900 block of Main Street on Friday morning.
Investigators said the bank's manager was injured, but have not released the extent of his injuries.
An unknown number of hostages are being held inside the bank, police said.
Residents in the area said parts of state Highway 35 were being blocked off.
For more information on this breaking story, stay tuned to KPRC Local 2 and Click2Houston.com.
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NY Carry permits change here from county to county...as there is 1 state law that covers all counties, my CCW is full carry in counties other than my own...but not mine.
in my county I would not be arrested for illegal carry if I was cought carrying concealed to places other than the range, or hunting, or stopping off at my bank/ diner/ 7-11/etc on the way to the range or hunting....but they cram all these rules onto it the CCW to make you think twice about carrying and if you are cought carrying not on the way to said locations, you can lose your permit to carry.
and like I said, if I am upstate out of my county by my hunting land, no such rules apply...and I carry all the time without hesitation.
all things considered I would rather live in Texas.
From experience I say best to wait them out. Keep them calm so no one else gets hurt. That is the desired end result. Going in guns a blazing is a bad idea. It causes the perpetrators to react against the hostages.
Going in anywhere, be it a stop and shop (gas type station) bank, mom and pop shop, I always look inside from the outside before i enter.
I have a concealed permit in my county which allows me to carry everywhere EXCEPT NYC. Go figure. NYC is exempt from the rest of the state when it comes to concealed carry laws. It has it’s own. Might as well separate the City from the rest of the state.
yeah same here.....NYC will give you a carry permit if your are an elitist....a movie star, million/billionare, rock star, sports figure etc...
I am treated like scum and I am suppose to lock up my licensed handgun when traveling from Long Island to my hunting land upstate at least while traveling through NYC.
a load of bovine scat.
You might be right. But if that’s the right approach when gunmen have hostages, it’s hard to imagine how going in with guns blazing could possibly be the right strategy for someone’s home, when there is suspected to be a bag of white powder inside, but no innocent lives are at risk.
I’m always nervous every 2 weeks when I get my nails done. A shop full of mostly women who have cash and credit cards and are wearing (in some cases) expensive jewelry.
Escape out the back door from most of these places would be almost impossible.
Nail salons would be a very easy hit.
I can't argue with that.
I have an open carry from TN but have been considering moving back to TX. I understand it is only a conceal carry there, correct?
I have an open carry from TN but have been considering moving back to TX. I understand it is only a conceal carry there, correct?
concealed carry on my way to either hunting or the range...during my trip I am alowed to make stops coming and going...many people around here belong to 24-7-365 pistol ranges and they can say they were on their way to the range....
open carry is illegal in the state...once I leave my county and travel to my hunting camp I carry all the time as I am required to protect my handgun at all times when away from my home....so I have a limited concealed carry....if you can figure out the reasoning let me know as I havent been able to figure it out in the last 20+ years.
because there are no innocent lives at risk inside, but they do have guns and will shoot officers entering and flush their white powder down the toilet or toss it in boiling oil.
A lot of people have guns. Is the risk of a white powder being flushed in the potty, or placing it in boiling oil, worth killing over? Apparently you think so. In any case, I though getting rid of drugs was a good thing, and here you’re offering a way to accomplish exactly that, except that you somehow want to avoid that from happening. What gives?
Incidentally, if you support violent no-knock raids for non-violent circumstances like suspected drug possession it means that to you, it’s worth killing people to preserve evidence that might put someone behind bars. I suggest that placing a conviction at higher value than preserving human lives is reversed, un-Christian, and supportive of tyranny. (Read your own tagline.)
This would be true even if no-knocks were never at wrong addresses, and never killed innocent people. But they do both of those things too.
100% agree with you. Reading about innocent people like that lady in Atlanta killed in no-knock raids by incompetent cops really pisses me off. And why do they shoot people’s dogs so often?
Yes it is conceal carry in Texas. If you have a carry permit for another state, Texas is reciprocal or unilateral with every state that has any kind of carry permit. (This means that even if the other state has not agreed to honor Texas CHL, Texas recognizes and honors that state's permit.)
And the subject of no-knock raids is tangentially related to the issue of a bank robbery with hostages how?
Because the police would not have knocked, if they'd had to raid the bank. See? It's all very logical.
Tangentially, because in my opinion the only time the police are justified in using military tactics, e.g. “raids” is when innocent lives are imminently at stake. Yes for a hostage situation in a bank, no for the possibility that a bag of white powder is in a certain residence. The military is for killing people and breaking things. The bag isn’t worth killing people over; preventing more people from being killed is.
So, do you distinguish between a "bag" and a pallet of bags?
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