What bothers me is that clearly LE don't want citizen help,,won't release license numbers, etc, purposely vague. Now that makes me think that a citizen trying to block one of these guys might unleash something worse than just getting killed.I agree. People should not try to be police, just be good witnesses and have their cell-phones handy. However, in Virginia, there are many citizens with carry permits and if there's a clear and present danger of lethal force being used criminally, then, meeting that with lethal force in self-defense is authorized.
I am concerned with the seeming desire not to scare the populace or offend Politically Correct sensibilities by mentioning the T-word, nor releasing any useful information. We're adults, we can handle the truth.
Usually, in a major crime like this was at first, the police are all over the news shows with sketches and requests for the people to keep their eyes open. Well, this time around, all we hear is "Go about your business as usual, and by the way, keep your eyes open." For what, exactly?
Yeah, exactly! I love this "go about your daily lives." Well Linda Franklin was going about her damn daily life and she's dead. Granted, when someone targets you from a distance, it would be hard to not fall victim to them, but by giving the public information, they put us all at risk.
Perhaps when someone attacks us with botulism, the Feds response to reports of "olive skinned men" scouting the target locations would be "islam is peace" "we dont want to paint any group" etc. And nothing to see here, move along.
Guess they gotta line up corpses at the altar of PC or coddling an irrational populace.