As I sat and read through the many posts on this thread [that
manage to find so much fault with the manner in which the
search and capture was handled], I can only wonder how many
of those posters are naive women, youths, or live closeted lives.
The liberals are usually the first to make the claim that all
freedom and rights should be abandoned for more safety.
It always surprises me to read it here on FR.
I "carry". If I had witnessed a "sniper" about to take his shot,
I would not have hesitated to stop the action. I am not privy
to the police reports, nor should I be. It would have mattered little
anyway. If there were "snipers" at various locations in this Nation,
firing simultaneously, what difference would a car color, make,
year, or nationality of it's occupants, make?
It's our responsibility to secure our own safety. That does not
mean that we should be privy to internal reports and information
of an ongoing [government] investigation. It means only, that
we have the right to protect ourselves, substantiated by
our 2nd Amendment.
The time to act, is at the time necessitating the act. We don't
need paranoid loonies attacking white vans.
Moose and the boys here didn't release ANY of it. Some of that info would have helped the general public protect themselves, and some would have aided the capture of the perp, like the license plate number, which had to be leaked behind Moose's back. There's no reason to withhold that info, except a mistrust of the citizens.
But I would have gone even further. I don't have a problem with vigilantes. We use bounty hunters all the time to find people that have skipped bail, what's the difference?
IMO, these agencies wanted to come out like big heroes, and in the end, a trucker from Kentucky found them in 1 1/2 hours. The cops screwed up. They should have employed the public in this thing long before.