Posted on 09/12/2018 2:47:55 PM PDT by Ennis85
David French wrote an article that went viral?
Doubtful.
Why couldn't he just have explained, "Because every day, in every way, I become more of a weenie!"
I actually wouldn’t classify the recent Texas shooting as a “police shooting.” Yes, the shooter happened to be a police officer, but she was off duty and was not engaged in any way in policing activity. She was a young woman who walked into what she thought was her apartment and made a catastrophic mistake. Had she been a civilian, this would be a gun ownership issue involving an unjustified and indefensible shooting by someone who was carrying legally.
One difference between Liberals and ourselves is not attributing behavior to a person's race. But we recognize that humans, of whatever "race", can be evil and need to be treated the same under the law. No excuses.
French served as JAG in Irag 2006-7 and is currently a major in the reserves.
I ceased being a French fan when he went neverTrump, but his writings concerning the military and terrorism are usually bang on the nail.
I don’t think he intended that line to be read as an insult to the military but to point out the unseemliness of police having less self-control than combat troops in a war zone.
Compare that number to the number of US citizens killed by illegals. Compare it to the number of killings on a Saturday night in Chicago.
Good on you. Such distinctions are usually ( almost always) lost on the population at large.
By viral French means he passed it to William Kristol, who passed it to Norman Podhoretz, to Elliot Abrams, to Gary Bauer, to Max Boot, David Brooks, Jeb Bush, Eric Cantor to finally David Frum.
The problem with cops facing ambiguous situations, is that being too ready to shoot means an increased probability of killing an innocent, while being too hesitant to shoot means an increased probability of the cop getting shot.
Cops seem to be deciding they would rather take the risk of shooting somebody they shouldn’t have, than taking the risk of getting shot.
Served in the JAG, huh? Yeah, really knowledgeable about combat.
Being in the JAG is as close to avoiding service while wearing a uniform as you can get.
I am a combat veteran and I was never “trigger happy”.
You nailed it. And because this is true, because urban teens are being driven by our political system to ever increasing acts of violence and thuggery, cops are naturally more jittery and more prone to incidents like what happened in Dallas.
I disagree. This was a police shooting. If you were I were carrying and we walked into our own home and faced a strange black man, would we be inclined to shoot and kill him? Perhaps. But this officer who faced real life or death situations on a daily basis regarding teens, had more experience at being guarded and cautious when encountering a teen, and had the training and the ability to shoot first and ask questions later, all added up to a typical police shooting.
You may want to read this West Virginia tale:
“If you were I were carrying and we walked into our own home and faced a strange black man, would we be inclined to shoot and kill him?”
It was not her home.
She had no way of knowing Jean was black.
David French: another foolish liberal non-thinker. Most folks don’t pay you any attention. Ever. And this is all the attention you will get from yours truly.
Why do you keep saying that? Numerous reports are out there. She saw a black man and ordered him not to move. He disregarded her orders. She shot him. All the while knowing he was a black man.
“She saw a black man and ordered him not to move. He disregarded her orders. She shot him. All the while knowing he was a black man.
She said it was dark and she saw a silhouette.
How could she determine race by a silhouette?
And how dare he disregard the orders of a person who broke into his home?
A hall in an apartment building is well lit-——one the door opened she would have been able to see him clearly.
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“I changed the way I read FR by never reading him.”
My God, I thought it was a woman.
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