Discussion: Texas Cop Shoots And Kills Local Sheriff's Deputy In His Home

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But if the Good Guy with a Gun had been armed, in his own home…wait.

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Domestic call – that is a pretty loaded (no pun intended, seriously) call to respond to. They are the worst.

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Didn’t know him to be a fellow policeman, I would imagine.

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Yeah, it looks like two good guys and a gun isn’t a good situation. Two good guys and no guns or maybe two good guys and two guns or maybe four AKs?

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Fixed the quote “Neither Holcomb nor Sheriff Paul Cunningham would discuss the
disturbance call or the events leading to the fatal shooting with the
station until they corroborated their story.”

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Not only am I terrinbly confused as to which was the Good Guy with the gun but Wild West Wayne over at the NRA sez this is just IMPOSSIBLE. One of the men was in his home, with a gun and trained in the use of firearms. How could this happen?

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Obviously there aren’t enough guns.

And remember without guns the crime rate would go up exponentially.

And guns aren’t the problem.

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Imagine away!

In your imagination, are LEOs immune from personal & domestic turmoil, frustrations, intemperance, anger mismanagement, and all the other stuff that goes along with being human and living in a society with myriad cultural overlays?

In your imagination, shooting and killing would NOT have occurred had the officer just known this was ‘fellow’ LEO doing whatever he was doing because his being a LEO would have provided some critical NUANCE to the scenario?

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Oh you cynic! Don’t you know the Texas Rangers are “investigating” now? Does that not now alleviate all possible concerns?

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Neither Holcomb nor Sheriff Paul Cunningham would discuss the disturbance call or the events leading to the fatal shooting with the station.

Oh nice.
Had this been a normal Joe Q Citizen, we’d have known the person’s prior past arrests, got accounts from various neighbors on what a bad guy this person was and we might even know what he ate for breakfast last Tuesday. But because this was a cop, we have to be shutty on the details.

Protecting and serving…one another.

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Cop on cop crime?

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Why not? You seem to be implying that both these guys are “good guys”. That might not be the case. One might be bad (domestic disturbance situation, who knows). Hey, both could be bad.

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The officer was shot very politely!

So everything’s Okey-Dokey.

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People should wait for the investigation. For all we know, that deputy was sitting there in his own home with a gun to his head, and the cop had no choice but shoot to prevent him from committing suicide.

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We also would have learned, in detail, and presented as fact, exactly what the victim did that warranted getting shot.

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Hard to tell with no details, but this is odd because usually in a domestic disturbance involving a cop, the role of cop No. 1 is to kill the other person involved in the disturbance, and the role of cop No. 2 (and others that arrive at the scene) is to make sure cop No. 1 isn’t charged with anything. Cop No. 2 may have really failed at his role.

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Apparently there was some confusion over which one was the good guy with a gun.

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Good cop, bad cop?

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It was just possibly the kickoff for campaign election day for a new sheriff,
The quickest gun won the good ole fashion texassss way.
Who else wants to be sheriff?

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