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511 police officers killed by firearms since 2000
Washington Post via Denver Post ^
| 23 nov 2010
Posted on 11/23/2010 6:00:49 AM PST by rellimpank
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--typical WaPo hit piece--several great comments after the article--
To: rellimpank
511 police officers killed by
Criminals Using firearms since 2000.
There. That's better.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:04:12 AM PST
by
WayneS
(Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
To: rellimpank
We need more gun laws - like they do in MEXICO prohibiting the ownership of pretty much most firearms - to be really really safe....
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:06:53 AM PST
by
macquire
To: rellimpank
Just don’t give a firearm to an SUV. That’s a murdering machine, right there.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:07:21 AM PST
by
Dan Nunn
(Support the NRA!)
To: WayneS
Not necessarily. Some undoubtedly were suicides, and some accidents. I virtually guarantee this.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:07:57 AM PST
by
BillM
(Don)
To: rellimpank
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:12 AM PST
by
Sooth2222
("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
To: rellimpank
Gotta love the comments. Even the 2nd Amendment supporters are clueless there.
Right off the bat the information in tis article is suspect. AK-47's require a federal tax stamp to own and many states deny that right at the state level. Now if they are talking AK based guns then it would be accurate. But places like the Denver post love to make things firearm related sound worse then they are in their effort to destroy the 2nd amendment.Alan Geoffrion | 5:29 AM on Tuesday Nov 2
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:23 AM PST
by
Dan Nunn
(Support the NRA!)
To: rellimpank
Yup.
I like how they break down all the other methods of obtaining a gun so that those seperate totals fall below the legal method.
Also, depciting the AK-47 in the chart was a nice touch. :)
What? No Glock depicted under the semi-auto handgun category? :)
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:33 AM PST
by
Pessimist
To: rellimpank
Yeah and how many people have died on the U.S. Mexican border Washington Post? I don’t hear you communist rats wanting to ban illegals crossing the border.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:11:54 AM PST
by
Sprite518
To: WayneS
I believe a couple of police have been killed by law-abiding citizens during no-knock raids. Those are the ones that really piss off the statists.
To: BillM
And some were LEO’s shooting each other.
To: rellimpank
How many were killed in auto traffic accidents?
How many were killed by spouses and family members?
How many were killed at their own hand?
How many were killed by friendly fire?
WaPo statistics are worthless.
It means nothing, WaPo means nothing.
I’ll keep my gun, so sayeth the Constitution.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:16:13 AM PST
by
Doulos1
(Bitter Clinger Forever!)
To: rellimpank
"Garen Wintemute ... director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis: "... we are also finding cases in which people who have criminal misdemeanor records
but remain eligible to buy guns do buy those guns and then kill cops with them,"
So you know what his agenda is - ANY conviction and you lose your right to bear arms. Feckin' commie b@stards.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:17:50 AM PST
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: WayneS
There ought to be a law against these handguns that go around all by themselves killing innocent people and policemen.
Barring that logical impossibility, one can only wish that numbskull journalists who write tripe such as this story find a “liberal’s conversion” epiphany in the form of a desperate confrontation by a felon possessing a firearm which requires human manipulation and will to function.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:18:01 AM PST
by
Mobties
(Let the markets work! Reduce the government footprint!)
To: rellimpank
Now, if the police would do their job and recover stolen firearms within 48 hours, they wouldn’t be seeing this problem, would they??? Har-De-Har-Har-Har!!!
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:20:06 AM PST
by
Waco
(From Seward to Sarah)
To: rellimpank
Of the 511 murders, how many of the murderers paid with their lives (via the gunfight, death penalty)?
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:22:47 AM PST
by
theDentist
(fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
To: harpseal; TexasCowboy; nunya bidness; AAABEST; Travis McGee; Squantos; wku man; SLB; ...
This same tired agitprop is all over newspapers this morning. SSDD.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:23:16 AM PST
by
Joe Brower
(Sheep have three speeds: "graze", "stampede" and "cower".)
To: rellimpank
The only murder with a legal machine gun was a cop murdering his wife. How many persons have been murdered by cops? How many persons have been killed by gun control? Why is the new world order afraid of human rights to self defense?
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:32:10 AM PST
by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: Doulos1
How many were killed in auto traffic accidents?
How many were killed by spouses and family members?
How many were killed at their own hand?
How many were killed by friendly fire?
WaPo statistics are worthless.
It means nothing, WaPo means nothing.
Ill keep my gun, so sayeth the Constitution.How many were killed by illegal immigrants?
To: Joe Brower
Wake me up when the number of cops killed by legally owned firearms gets anywhere near the number of innocent civilians wrongly killed by law enforcement.
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posted on
11/23/2010 6:42:31 AM PST
by
Dead Corpse
(III, Alarm and Muster)
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