Discussion for article #240882
Why in the fuck would you send a poor-old retired fella working a side job to serve a domestic violence restraining order and collect guns from an abusive spouse postal worker (for cryin’ out loud) in fucking gun-obsessed, kill-crazy, brain-frying heat Florida of all places? That’s just culpable negligence. It was an inherently dangerous situation calling for two real cops with clear fields of fire.
Yeah, you guys should feel bad because you fucked up and got this old dude killed.
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Handguns are ambush weapons. Quit telling me they’re for self defense.
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But…what if one of the electrical workers or that lady at the awning business had been exercising their 2nd Amendment rights and got to be the Good Guy/Woman With A Gun? Ever think about that, huh? SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!11!one!
/snark
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And why did it take years for his guns to be surrendered? Ought to be interesting to see how SOP for this kind of thing will change.
I know the answer to that first question. Because Floridah Secun’ 'Mendment.
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You mean the Good Guy with a Gun wasn’t in Florida either?
Where the fuck IS that guy anyway? Somebody ask Wild West Wayne.
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Every time one of these things happen, cops get jumpier and more nervous. Can’t say I blame them, either. The NRA has made the job of the cop much much more difficult.
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And again armed white guy shoots and kills cop. But it’s those unarmed black teenagers that cops are sooooooo afraid of.
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Because Bobby Jindal said the time wasn’t right yet.
Weasel that he is.
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I will never understand why police organizations don’t fight hard for background checks and other gun control measures. It seems to me they disproportionately bear the burden of guns for almost anyone, anywhere, anytime policies we have today.
The rare times I have been pulled over the 1st thing a cop does is ascertain if any weapons are around out of self preservation. I would think it an easy jump to universal background checks among other things like licenses.
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Postal worker.
Guns are actually terrible defensive weapons. If they have the drop on you it’s the same as being unarmed.
Sounds like this “cop” turned his back on the “suspect”. Because, white.
You almost need an SS tat to get a cop job these days. That’s where teabaggers and oaf creepers come from.
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If only the victim had been armed.
The NSRA wants gun freaks to keep their guns until after being convicted of violent crimes. For freedumb!
NRA poster boy. Government came to take his guns. He fought back against the tyranny.
Wayne LaPierre, well-known enabler of unintentional gun deaths of and by young children:
Specifically, Obama signaled what he sees as dangerous political speech in his May, 2013 [Ohio University commencement] address:
“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate sinister entity that’s at the root of our problems. Some of these voices also do their best to gum up the works. They warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”
As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it. Five million strong, we proudly “gum up the works” when those “works” are designed to destroy American liberty, be it attacks on rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment or the First Amendment.
“Tyranny.” That’s Obama’s word. The president is right about one thing: Many people are, indeed, warning about tyranny “lurking just around the corner.”
Go tell the friends and family of Deputy Bill Myers that his life was not taken, but was sacrificed for liberty.
From a July 30,2013 op-ed in The Daily Caller. I won’t link to it.
Sunday, September 13, 2015
8-year-old boy unintentionally shot by babysitter
39-year-old Mike Lee Dickey was babysitting an 8-year-old Casa Grande, Arizona boy. According to police, at about 2 a.m., Dickey was in the bathroom removing his .45-caliber handgun from the waistband of his pants when he unintentionally discharged the gun.
The bullet passed through two doors and struck the 8-year-old in his arm while he lay sleeping in a nearby bedroom.