Posted on 11/22/2015 10:51:40 AM PST by jazusamo
In a surprising comment, Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier is encouraging ordinary citizens to subdue or even kill active gunmen if they can as the "best option for saving lives before police can get there."
During an interview Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," Chief Lanier was asked what should people do if they are in the vicinity of an active shooter like the ones who terrorized Paris on Nov. 13, The Washington Examiner reported.
"Your options are run, hide, or fight," the D.C. police chief said. "If you're in a position to try and take the gunman down, to take the gunman out, it's the best option for saving lives before police can get there."
The District for decades had outlawed handguns until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the ban in 2008. Since then, city leaders have enacted restrictive laws that are still being challenged in court by gun owners and pro-gun activists.
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They could throw staplers, which IIRC was suggested when Obama’s son shut up the the Navy Yard
Why? She's absolutely a butt.
Well that’s the end of her career.
But there CAN’T BE such a gunman in DC since the permit rules are so onerous, you can’t get a gun.
Chief Lannier, meet Sheriff David Clarke!
With what? Spitballs?
Was she thinking of Flight 93, and how the French victims could have “mobbed” their two attackers? It still would have been better to have just two “concealed carry” attendees.
I love it, he could school her good.
The lawyers are going to love Chief Lanier even more after this advice. Now they can sue the city, too.
We can’t spare this man. He fights.
There are some things worse than lawsuits.
......or a bullhorn, a banner and a march...........
I’m sure this LIB idiot l”misspoke”. She is anti-armed-Citizens. What an affirmative action loser.
Many commenting here think we should offer no resistance, and wait for our turn to be slaughtered.
Guess those three Americans and the Frenchman on the French train had it all wrong. They should have stayed in their seats while the jihadist reloaded.
I don’t care what religion one is. There is a natural reaction to duck your head when someone throws something at it. And that creates an opportunity to escape or rush the gunman.
Imagine if 30 or 40 people are throwing things at your head and twenty of them then rush at you. You’d be lucky to get two or three of them before the mob takes you down.
We’re talking about an exposed gunman with multiple hostages, not storming a fortified machine gun position on Normandy beach.
Cathy is an idiot. Maybe she should focus on being the all-powerful police force she claimed she had when she protested privately owned firearms.
You've got a point there.
Two more things which come readily to mind are Muslim jihadis and Obama's Executive Branch. I'm sure we can easily think of others but those two have basically the same goals in mind although their initial conquest methods might differ somewhat.
Something you don’t allow in D.C.
My God. Are you saying the DC Police Chief can vote on bills in Congress? Damn things sure have changed.
“.. people to take down a gunman with their bare hands...”
Hey, why not ? Superman used to do it on TV, all the time ;)
Last time I went to the Doctor for a check-up he asked me how my grip had been.(He’s treating me for arthritis)I answered do you mean with my hands or on reality.He just looked at me like I had 2 heads.
(How about issuing some CCW permits so people have a snowball's chance in Hell of defending themselves?)
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