Posted on 07/15/2002 10:49:20 AM PDT by Donald Stone
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The FEDs will shoot back but the only people they hit will be uninvolved bystanders.
Magnificent target practice...
I see that you've fallen for this bit'o'propaganda too. Looking at Baltimore a year or so ago I did a calculation (just based on the number of police killed in the line of duty and the number of Baltimore citizens killed) and discovered that the peasants were more likely to be killed by criminals than the police. So at least in Baltimore (A gun control advocate's dream city) the police become SAFER when they don the uniform.
That's an interesting tidbit. But I dare say that police are not killed often out of uniform either in Baltimore. They would tend to avoid danger at all times, not just while on duty.
But my point was that the police should be willing and required to accept an elevated level of risk that comes along with doing their jobs properly. And doing the job properly means not routinely pointing loaded firearms at innocent people who pose no immediate threat.
My point is that they won't. The "good cops" had better start pushing out the "bad cops", or the public, when it finally gets fed up with this, is not going to make the distinction.
The fact that all feds will be targeted, instead of just those who may deserve it, is what will be not pretty.
True, but this is just going to get worse until those like Braga are found guilty of CRIMINAL charges not just civil ones. My kid was on neurosurgery consult at a Baltimore hospital and said they brought in an 80 year old man that the police had beaten so bady he was suffering from a subdural hematoma. (or was it subarachnid?) anyway the details aren't important, what is important is that the police can do pretty much waht they want to whomever they want and NEVER suffer any criminal convictions for their behavior
Sorry it's not that easy. I know because it doesn't get any press time that you probably think it never happens, but the good cops have been doing just that.
I think we'd all like to know just one of these sociopathic shooters has been convicted in criminal court. The reason that it gets no publicity is that it doesn't happen. And I'm not talking about cops who are convicted of burgulary or selling dope purloined from drug dealers. I'm talking about the ones who go around shooting the peasants because they can.
Might as well, I assume by your reply that you are a LEO which means with the badge comes a liscense to kill. Waste 'em, waste 'em now. Do it for the children. God Bless America. I'm sure the kids you cooked @ Waco, the madonna you wasted @ Ruby Ridge, the kid whose face you blew off in Baltimore, the guy you wasted while off duty in Roanoke, VA at closing time confrontation over a barroom Betty, the immigrant you raped with a mop handle in NYC, and all the rest too numerous to mention understand that what your actions are for the good of the country. Seig Heil, & Achtung to you, Commissar.
Your comments are little emotional don't you think? I wasn't even a law enforcement officer when most of those things took place. I think I would be entirely justified in shootng somebody that is trying to kill me. Perhaps you don't see it that way.
you said you would shoot into a crowd of innocents in order to nail the bad guy. seems to me a cop with a modest amount of humanity would retreat and call for the swat team with a sniper, at least thats the way they do hostage situations on TV. BTW, did I ever tell you about the a-hole LEO (a-hole all his life prior to becoming a LEO)that I knew? Got drunk one day while off duty, saw a jerk tow truck driver he had trouble with in past, shot at tow truck driver, missed, killed his 16 year old helper. LEO was married to another LEO. LEO gets convicted, goes to jail. later ex LEO and Mrs. LEO (shes on duty, cop car parked next to prison wagon) caught giving the shock absorbers in the prison wagon a workout. Mrs LEO goes is reprimanded, put on desk duty for a little while, then backout on the streets protecting the citizens from people of poor character. Even when LEO is so dead wrong he gets convicted, he still gets privalages the average low life doesn't. Everyone has to pay consequences if they break the law except for LEO, he always gets a pass. Kind of like a Clinton or a Kennedy when you think about it.
Perhaps I was not clear enough. Given no other alternative, meaning, get shot or shoot the perpetrator, I would shoot the perpetrator. I will not miss. I'm not your average LEO that thinks they can will the bullet to the target. I train constantly. I've been in enough shoot/no shoot situations to reasonably know how I would react and what use of force is necessary.
no, i realize that its a small minority of LEO's that have an itchy trigger finger. its LEO getting away with it that infuriates me.
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