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Police: Man Shot Dead By Officers Pulled Air Pistol That Looked Like Gun
CBS New York ^
| Dec. 9, 2012
Posted on 12/09/2012 1:43:21 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
They can kill you just as dead.
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:47:35 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
...appeared out of nowhere,... Sounds like one of those "suicide by cop" things to me.
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:51:26 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(I feel sad for my once great country. We deserve everything that is about to happen to us.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
I would have shot him too.
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:51:48 PM PST
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
To: SkyDancer; Free ThinkerNY
When the Colorado shooter burst into the theater, most people thought he was waving a toy gun and it was a stunt.
I am in charge of an historic site, and some satanist freak brought a very realistic “toy” gun on the site because he wanted his satanist girlfriend(s) to make a video of him pointing it at a religious symbol. I made him leave the site, but other visitors (including somebody in law enforcement) told me that they thought it was a real gun and that I should have called the police.
It may have been a real gun, I don’t know. But in any case, if somebody is going to go around doing this in public places, they’ve got to take the consequences. And it is absolutely true that an air pistol can kill you.
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:58:34 PM PST
by
livius
To: Free ThinkerNY
Don’t bring an air pistol to a gunfight.
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posted on
12/09/2012 1:59:04 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you've likely misread the situation.)
To: SkyDancer
.177 cal, BB ammo, CO2 powered, 360 fps. But how would know that in a fast-unfolding confrontation?
To: ProtectOurFreedom
now you know.
If you'd pulled your piece and cut the guy to ribbons, you'd never get out of prison though. cops can do this without penalty.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:02:54 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: ProtectOurFreedom
now you know.
If you'd pulled your piece and cut the guy to ribbons, you'd never get out of prison though. cops can do this without penalty.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:03:15 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: livius
OTOH - someone could have a real gun, paint some orange on the muzzle and people would then think it’s fake. Trick someone out until it’s too late.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:10:36 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Exactly. Even fake guns in Australia you need a permit. I’ve seen pellet guns at gun shows that shoot upwards of 1,000 fps in .22 cal.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:12:07 PM PST
by
SkyDancer
(Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
To: muawiyah
If you'd pulled your piece and cut the guy to ribbons, you'd never get out of prison though. Can you prove that?
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:14:48 PM PST
by
Alaska Wolf
(Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
To: Alaska Wolf
it’s New York ~ what more need be said. The cops get to shoot people.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:25:25 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:38:08 PM PST
by
stanne
To: Free ThinkerNY
Good... I always love a happy ending.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:39:43 PM PST
by
Gator113
(**WHO in the hell gave the damn order to NOT rescue our men in Benghazi?**)
To: Free ThinkerNY
It was actually a Walther CP99 compressed air pistol, but was designed to look like a Glock, police said.Really? Designed to look like a Glock?
Gosh, New York peoples is so smart!
To: SkyDancer
To: muawiyah
The cops get to shoot people. If someone points a gun at you, will you act or cower ?
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:46:06 PM PST
by
Alaska Wolf
(Carry a Gun, It's a Lighter Burden Than Regret)
To: Alaska Wolf
I’ve spent thousands of hours at on the mean streets of a hundred cities in the wee hours of the morning and not been shot. people less wary get shot every day.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:52:40 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Free ThinkerNY
I'm one of the first to jump on the cops in most of these shootings... but this one seems justified. The only hiccup that I see is that the arrestee had enough time to say Theyre cops, you idiot!, and yet it still escalated. But if the idiot was warned, AND proceeded against the police with an air pistol, then you may as well call it suicide-by-cop.
I'm not crazy about the never-ending parade of police shootings (my father served for 22 years in the 5-boroughs area, and never once shot anyone - despite being fired upon 3 times), but I can't see this as anything but justified.
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posted on
12/09/2012 2:59:47 PM PST
by
Teacher317
('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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