Someone should tell the NRA that not even the police believe in their “only good way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” line.
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My hometown of Montréal went through this painful experience. A crazy person entered Polytechnique with an automatic rifle and went from room to room, killing women. The first responding police units did what they were taught to do, which is to remain outside, assist victims, and wait for the Emergency Response Team.…
Yeah, just go ahead and strip that “Serve and Protect” stickers off every fucking cop car.
The size of the weapon he was carrying had nothing to do with the size of the weapon the gunman had.
This is absolutely, categorically WRONG, and you should stop spreading this false narrative.
No, they’re not winning those votes anyway. It’s a waste of time to chase them.
No. Maybe I wasn’t clear. The dems spend a lot of time trying to convince these nut jobs that they don’t want to take their guns from them. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, to dissuade them from that notion. It certainly doesn’t make them vote democrat. My point is, if that irrational fear of “Obama wants to…
Dudes can shoot a shitload of black kids with BB guns but can’t save a couple of students from a psycho because Procedural Reasons.
Your comment wasn’t about sales, it was about defying the law to keep illegal weapons. Slippery slope if I’ve ever seen one.
Then take away his gun and give him a pair of binoculars, a radio, and a rape whistle. What’s the point of him being armed if he’s never going to use it unless there are an overwhelming amount of cops backing him up? Maybe never let cops go anywhere solo? Perhaps if he held hands with a buddy he could have confronted…
“Their first responsibility is to ensure their own safety.”
The way they did in Waco. Drive a tank into their living rooms and burn them to death.
Sending a solo officer against a heavily armed assailant is a great way to get the officer killed, and more weapons and ammo into the assailants hands.
Even if he was (and I don’t know if he was) does this mean we’re going to hold grade school teachers to a higher standard than law enforcement officers?
So, Protect and Serve became Respond and Report?
I don’t want to defend this guy. In fact, I despise that police are taught to protect themselves above others, but I don’t know whether charging in would have made this better or worse.
On one hand, there was a guy shooting people inside the school and I totally understand not wanting to, you know, get shot. On the other hand, and I’m no expert on law enforcement over here, but I’m pretty sure stopping crime is, like, pretty much the entire job description for people in Peterson’s position. And…
He undoubtedly was following protocol. Even if he wasn’t, let’s use this as a way undermine the “good guy with a gun” bullshit. He was afraid. Rightfully so. I know if Emperor Sweet Potato were there he would have flown in on a dragon and taken the shooter out with lightening bolts from his eyes, but most people,…
I’m not entirely sure this guy wasn’t following his training. Aren’t they constantly told their life is more important than anything?