[DannyTN]

"So now the shooter is the victim. These truly are strange times."

I didn't say the shooter was the victim. I do however give him the benefit of the doubt in the shooting.

I just said he looked like the model of restaint relative to the people on this board.

[FreedomCalls]

So why is he wandering around a police stop with a loaded and cocked shotgun anyway? Was he planning on blasting off the head of one of vacationers? Did he not have a pistol? Of what possible use was a shotgun in this instance? He was never more than 10 feet away from the detainees. Perhaps blasting a 8-inch hole in someone's stomach or blasting off their head is your idea of how a cop should behave in this situation, but it's not mine. I have no feeling for the dog, my concern is for what he could have done to one of the people and whether or not I have to fear for my own life the next time I travel through Tennessee.