[HiTech RedNeck]

And they would have come at this one with tasers, and...? There’s such thing as being a caricature of a statist, and you come nigh to that.

[Alberta's Child]

No, they wouldn't have. They wouldn't come at all. That was the point. They're only good at being Monday-morning quarterbacks.

We had a similar shooting here in New York City within the last week or so. The scene unfolded right there in Times Square in broad daylight, and the police surrounded the loony-tune and followed him for blocks -- clearing traffic and pedestrians out of the way -- before he lunged at them with a large knife and they killed him in a hail of gunfire.

I'm no "statist," either. I would rather have the convenience store staff deal with this nonsense, which is exactly what would have happened if the police weren't just a phone call away.