[L.N. Smithee]

For the most part ordinary people aren't going to undertake serious acts of violence when their kids are present. On the other hand, there's a continuing history of this sort of stuff on the part of cops, whether it's a cop shooting a kid in the back in Cincinnati, or a sheriff blowing away a kid in Ruby Ridge.

Tell me more about that "kid" in Cincinnati. Was he peacefully protesting? And was it a "sheriff" that killed a kid at Ruby Ridge?

[muawiyah]

I think the conclusion was that after the sheriff and a marshall had shot the kid's dog, the kid fired back in self-defense which precipitated blind firing by the sheriff, and it was his bullet in the 13 year old kid.

In any case, you had armed law officers whose stupidity resulted in their killing a kid.

Randy Weaver won a multi-million dollar award for this particular killing.

The guy in Cincinnati shot an unarmed kid who was doing nothing but fleeing. Days of rioting ensued.

Just because somebody runs is no reason to shoot them.

That's why I questioned the wisdom of the Pinellas cops taking guns to the hospice demonstration area. Unless they intended shooting down unarmed people there with their children, they really didn't have any need for them did they?

[ariamne]

I'm with you on that one, LN.

Good night to you both. It's late and I've had my say and my fill.