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D.C. police Chief Cathy Lanier urges public to ‘take down’ active gunman if they can
The Washington Times ^ | November 22, 2015 | Carleton Bryant

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Virginia; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; cathylanier; cathyllanier; ccw; chieflanier; districtofcolumbia; guncontrol; jihadinamerica; lanier; secondamendment; terrorism; washingtondc
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To: SaveFerris

They could throw staplers, which IIRC was suggested when Obama’s son shut up the the Navy Yard


41 posted on 11/22/2015 12:09:05 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: xrmusn
HOWEVER (better than BUT).

Why? She's absolutely a butt.

42 posted on 11/22/2015 12:09:44 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: jazusamo

Well that’s the end of her career.


43 posted on 11/22/2015 12:16:06 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: jazusamo

But there CAN’T BE such a gunman in DC since the permit rules are so onerous, you can’t get a gun.


44 posted on 11/22/2015 12:23:56 PM PST by fruser1
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To: jazusamo

Chief Lannier, meet Sheriff David Clarke!


45 posted on 11/22/2015 12:25:10 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: jazusamo

With what? Spitballs?


46 posted on 11/22/2015 12:26:38 PM PST by RedMDer (Support Free Republic and Keep FReedom ALIVE!)
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To: jocon307

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.


47 posted on 11/22/2015 12:27:55 PM PST by Does so (Europeans better start becoming "Illegal Immigrants" to the USA. ==8-O)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I love it, he could school her good.


48 posted on 11/22/2015 12:28:43 PM PST by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: jazusamo

The lawyers are going to love Chief Lanier even more after this advice. Now they can sue the city, too.


49 posted on 11/22/2015 12:32:53 PM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: jazusamo

We can’t spare this man. He fights.


50 posted on 11/22/2015 12:36:33 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Gritty

There are some things worse than lawsuits.


51 posted on 11/22/2015 12:37:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Steely Tom
I guess she wants people to take down a gunman with their bare hands.

......or a bullhorn, a banner and a march...........

52 posted on 11/22/2015 12:38:41 PM PST by varon (Don't point that finger at me unless you're prepared to have it broken off!)
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To: jocon307

I’m sure this LIB idiot l”misspoke”. She is anti-armed-Citizens. What an affirmative action loser.


53 posted on 11/22/2015 12:39:23 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: livius

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.


54 posted on 11/22/2015 12:43:20 PM PST by BigBobber (`)
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To: jazusamo

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.


55 posted on 11/22/2015 12:48:22 PM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: Jim Robinson
There are some things worse than lawsuits.

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.

56 posted on 11/22/2015 1:00:27 PM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: SaveFerris

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.


57 posted on 11/22/2015 1:00:47 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: Steely Tom

“.. people to take down a gunman with their bare hands...”

Hey, why not ? Superman used to do it on TV, all the time ;)


58 posted on 11/22/2015 1:36:57 PM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: Chode

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.


59 posted on 11/22/2015 1:54:13 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: jazusamo
No problem, Chief, the Plastic Spork Brigade is on it!

(How about issuing some CCW permits so people have a snowball's chance in Hell of defending themselves?)

60 posted on 11/22/2015 2:00:27 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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