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To: Boot Hill
"And I believe that response is a direct quote from someone who doesn't know the difference between being a conservative and being an ignorant buttwipe."

conservative, adj, "tending to conserve, preservative."

My interprestation of your remark above is that you classify yourself as a conservative.

I have provided the definition of conservative from The American Heritage College Dictionary.

With that being said, I presume you would wish to "conserve" the covenants of the Bill of Rights.

Specifically,

Amendment II, "...right to keep and bear arms..."

Amendment V, "... nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;"

I would hope you do not think being shot in the back is "due process of law."

121 posted on 06/14/2003 5:42:27 PM PDT by tahiti
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To: tahiti
tahiti says:   "I would hope you do not think being shot in the back is 'due process of law'."

Your comparison to Stalin was despicable and unwarranted and displays a cop-bashing mentality.

Under the circumstances that were described in the accompanying news story, there was zero failure of due process. The fact that the wounds were in the back is of no material value, because once the officers felt their life's were in jeopardy (the only issue in this shooting), the shooting should not cease until that jeopardy ceased to exist. Which way the perp was facing the exact moment the bullets struck is irrelevant.

--Boot Hill

123 posted on 06/14/2003 8:18:59 PM PDT by Boot Hill
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