[muawiyah]

I think you're arguing with someone else's point. My point concerned the THREAT TO THE CHILDREN at the demonstration. The Pinellas Park cops are carrying guns in a situation that simply does not call for guns.

I am waiting on some Liberals to tell us that flooding the streets with guns inevitably results in death and destruction.

That's not happening!

No doubt somebody's reading this thread because the Pinellas cops just told the "newsies" a short while ago that "the crowd may surge into the hospice and kidnap Terri".

I suppose they think that's a justification for the guns ~ that is, the threat that they will shoot the crowd.

Now, back to your point ~ exactly which court order is it that the Pinellas Park police have been directed to enforce? At the moment I think the only guy with a court order is the sheriff, and the Pinellas Park police are doing this at the request only of the manager of the hospice.

Given that it's a building with "public access" seems to me the defense of the facility is one that would ordinarily be mounted only to the point of barring the door, not the infliction of lethal force.

[L.N. Smithee]

I think you're arguing with someone else's point. My point concerned the THREAT TO THE CHILDREN at the demonstration. The Pinellas Park cops are carrying guns in a situation that simply does not call for guns.

That's nonsense. As much as I don't believe that the crowd peacefully protesting this situation is a threat to anyone, any large crowd in opposition to a situation as highly charged as this one requires police presence. Whenever the number of people in a crowd have the ability to overwhelm the peace officers guarding them, weapons MUST be at the ready. It only takes one nut to ruin everything, and according to some reports, some have gone overboard in their support of saving Terri's life.

[Dave S]

I suppose they think that's a justification for the guns ~ that is, the threat that they will shoot the crowd.

You fool. Cops carry guns because they dont know what challenges they are going to face. It is standard process. If you think its some kind of special harrassment of you always harrassed Chrisitians, you are even more deluded than you seem. My suggestion, if you dont like guns around kids, keep your G-- Damned kids away from the hospice.

Until I found out all the arrests were scripted in advance, I was in favor of arresting the parents of the kids arrested for endangering their children.