Posted on 03/26/2011 4:28:04 PM PDT by marktwain
I'm sure that's how he thinks - only people he knows should have guns. That's the problem.
This former Army Officer was a well trained West Point grad carrying concealed.
So what happened?
Everything is blanked out but the audio.
Am I missing something?
“Everything is blanked out but the audio.
Am I missing something?”
It is an audio recording.
“Serve and Protect” long ago turned into “Us and Them” ... cops are NOT your friends. The days of “Officer Friendly” partolling his beat disappeared with all the other Norman Rockwell visions of America. We are a multicultural lowest common denominator police state, by design.
Any encounter with law enforcement has the potential to turn out badly for the citizen, in terms of loss of liberties or life, or at the very least in terms of loss of income.
“Police officers are people who more often or not deal with the downside of society.”
Yes, and that makes some of them—also known as “bad cops”—view everyone as criminals until proven otherwise. Which, I hardly need to add, is not the ideal for law enforcement in a free republic.
“That officer has a primary objective every time he gets out of the car, to control the situation.”
Not when there’s no “situation.” He shouldn’t, for instance, unload his weapon on a tree that looks at him crosseyed. Assuming he perceives the tree to possess eyes and ill intent (and, gosh help them, they can be mouthy, can’t they?).
I hope the foulmouthed sergeant finds a job which better suits his personality and skill level... I can't even think of one that should be offered to him.
I have never even heard of anything that bad in this country before.
Are you kidding?
This is the same police force that dropped a BOMB on a private home in a residential neighborhood and then held back the firefighters until entire city BLOCKS were burned to the ground.
This guy is lucky to be alive. I always considered Phila cops to be very dangerous dudes who operated with impunity.
not even close...
Have you changed your mind about police authority in the last two years?
On a thread entitled: Security video shows deputy's alleged assault on girl, 15 you wrote:
In general no, I haven’t changed my mind. However, in this particular case with the audio evidence, the individuals involved need to be prosecuted.
In general no, I haven’t changed my mind. However, in this particular case with the audio evidence, the individuals involved need to be prosecuted. This one incident does NOT mean ALl policemen and women are that bad. To generalize to that degree is anarchy.
Really? Which incident is this?
I call them 'goons' because that's what they are --hired thugs.
Not all citizens are bad, but ALL cops treat them that way until it is proven otherwise.
I say, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Since ALL cops approach citizens as if they were murderous perps, then IMO, ALL cops are lying goons who should not be trusted to do the right thing, much less uphold the law.
When you look at the list of places (in this country) where you cannot, where the law makers and law enforcement work hand in hand for opportunities to intimidate the 2nd Amendment out of its population...
You have to wonder why anyone here who understands how wrong that is, even care anymore about those places...
If the law enforcement officer took a shot at this guy and missed, would anyone here have been sympathetic at all to the guy if he had returned fire in the defense of his person against this attack???? And possibly stopped the attack by hitting the officer(s)???
It would have been on this audio, if it had happened that way...
What would the sentiments towards the guy be when he was exercising his right to keep and bear arms per the laws agreed to in that state at every moment of this encounter with these law enforcement officers who were not enforceing the law correctly???
See when we (concealed handgun licensees, Texas) are encouraged to de-escalate situations as a means to prevent a deadly outcome, seems to me some law enforcement types in certain areas in this country need to learn this amazing tool before someone gets hurt...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/11/national/main6472296.shtml
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4651126
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/93137669.html
The bombing resulted in 11 deaths (including 5 children) and the destruction of 65 homes in the resulting fires.
An investigative commission formed by the Philadelphia Mayor issued its report on March 6, 1986 denouncing the actions of the city government, stating that “Dropping a bomb on an occupied row house was unconscionable.”
No one from the city government was charged criminally.
ping for later
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