And Your Little Dog, Too (It’s time to control the government’s guns)

National Review ^ | 2-11-2013 | Deroy Murdock - Commentary

[robowombat]

‘a Virginia SWAT squad killed optometrist Sal Culosi while arresting him for sports gambling.’
I recall this case in the late 1980’s I think,and it was not the usual SWAT storm trooper action. Culosi, who ran part of a sports book had been arrested and was sitting handcuffed in a police cruiser when a Fairfax County Police Department officer accidentally squeezed the trigger of his service pistol as he was holstering it. The round went through the front seat back and hit the unfortunate Dr. Culosi killing him instantly. The case disappeared from the press and I have no idea what the disposition was.

[MarMema]

This is excellent and needs to be read by every American.

[Ken H]

Officer Won't Face Charges in Shooting Death (Fairfax, VA)

03/23/2006

The Fairfax County police officer who shot an unarmed man to death in January will not be charged with a crime, the county's chief prosecutor announced this afternoon.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1602617/posts

[Ian Hawk]

Yes they did. It was called the “SS” with death squads that would hunt down whoever was on thier list. Look what they did to Rommel.

[MarMema]

here is another one

[robowombat]

I thought this happened a lot earlier than ‘06. Maybe there was another bad shoot I have it confused with.

[cynwoody]

Instead, we had 70 firefighters on the scene, about 15 cops, paramedics, two-helicoptors - and even 2 scary-looking, totally-black Homeland Security SUV’s. Even the Red Cross had to show up with their donut truck to hand out free coffee as there were so many public-safety officials standing around doing nothing.

That would be the gubmint. You pay for them in every paycheck.

Think how much bigger your paycheck would be without those parasites. The warehouses fire might have been more (or less) interesting. But fires go out when there's nothing left to burn. However, government only increases. And entitlements are forever.

[cynwoody]

This phenomenon is a natural outgrowth of Big Government.

Time to love the Sequester, even if it means someone you know (maybe even you) is going to be out of a job!

[Ken H]

This phenomenon is a natural outgrowth of Big Government.

Yep. Cheered on by FR's drug warriors, I might add.

[Eagles6]

I think we know what will happen if Joe Sixpack shoots back to protect himself or his family after the scared sh!tless cops light up his white minivan because it sorta looks like a gray Nissan pickup.

[The Great RJ]

Soon there won’t be a need for armed federal SWAT teams when Obama can just order a missile strike from a circling drone. Selling raw milk from your farm, suspected of having an unapproved firearm or having too many people at your home Bible study could soon mean a federal agency sending a missile through your front door. Hitler could only have dreamed of such power

[Bon mots]

Now they want to use drones to hunt for Dorner... of course, that is just the beginning.

[John Freeman]

The Keystone Cops routine on display in Southern California shows a need for gun control. Those cops need to have their guns taken away before they start shooting one another.

[Eye of Unk]

Pretty soon gun running will be the newest and most lucrative American adventure, like moonshiners.

[Gilbo_3]

when local cops who write tickets dress up like Green Berets, their attitudes can change. As former Reagan Pentagon aide Lawrence Korb pithily states: “Soldiers are trained to vaporize, not Mirandize.”

up is down, black is white...our troops are handcuffed with *rules of engagement* and forced to show restraint in the face of hardened bad guys on foreign battlefield, getting charged and ruined for protecting themselves, while domestically, barney in kevlar is shooting labradors and their owners at the wrong house and getting *paid admin leave* and promotions...

[Travis McGee]

[FreedomPoster]

ping

[FreedomPoster]

Botched Paramilitary Police Raids

An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”

http://www.cato.org/raidmap

Cato policy paper “Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids,” by Radley Balko.

http://store.cato.org/reports/overkill-rise-paramilitary-police-raids-america

[sickoflibs]

RE “up is down, black is white...our troops are handcuffed with *rules of engagement* and forced to show restraint in the face of hardened bad guys on foreign battlefield, getting charged and ruined for protecting themselves, while domestically, barney in kevlar is shooting labradors and their owners at the wrong house and getting *paid admin leave* and promotions...”

Post 9/11 man. These heavily armed troops are ‘keeping you safe’.
Bush era Republicans lectured us that patriots dont need no stinkin constitutional rights. Remember those envelopes with powder and the sniper?

Those big gubment Republicans never imagined that Dems would take power.

Keep complaining and the drone over your head will pay you a visit.

[palmer]

Instead, we had 70 firefighters on the scene, about 15 cops, paramedics, two-helicoptors - and even 2 scary-looking, totally-black Homeland Security SUV’s. Even the Red Cross had to show up with their donut truck to hand out free coffee as there were so many public-safety officials standing around doing nothing.

That would not happen in my rural county (Red Cross coffee). The reason why we get all those firefighters and cops at the empty warehouses (not a fire, just an alarm) is so they can "socialize". If you think socializing involves coffee, then you are thinking about the wrong beverage.