Story from ww2. One of the big mags published some pics of GIs lying dead on a pacific beach: nothing too graphic but nothing that had been seen in print either. The White House was flooded with letters asking why the president was killing our soldiers-despite the bloody months that had preceded the pics.

His appearance during one of Lettermans last shows was extremely heartfelt and moving.

Those were available in the 90s but I think they are probably not available to law enforcement. (Though that would be cool)

Well people do and have responded that way to armed individuals. But I cant think of anything like Whitman, which was a situation which took hours to resolve. It would be like if someone jumped in the 97 LA shootout.

Streiber has written what I think is the best UFO horror short story of all time: "The Open Doors"

His training is what seems evident to me. There is not a ton of difference between the weapons used. (Both were semi automatic weapons)
If it were my kid in there, I think I would prefer someone try something to stop the shooter, even if conditions were not optimal. The alternative of doing nothing seems worse.

No I was simply curious. I think it is illustrative of the different times we live in. Hard to imagine anyone responding that way today. But keep grinding your axes!

I wonder if it addresses that some people responded with their own rifles, to aid the police?

One episode dr kelso had a flashback to the 70s when sexual harassment was permitted (kelso in sideburns "looking good Nancy" and swatting her ass with a clipboard) so inappropriate. So so funny.

I always thought this show used music better than most

Ok I can't help myself-Sarah chalke. Sweet sassy molassy.

Cox was the most competent Doctor right?

Yah but for its time period it's trying

I decline to further participate in your hallucination.

So the destruction of cities, the diversion of the Luftwaffe to nearly nothing but air defense, the hundreds of thousands diverted to anti aircraft guns? This did nothing to shorten the war? This did nothing to effect the war at all? Can you cite which historians say this is common sense?
Also, since Germany…

I'm absurdly flattered you think of me as a regular. I've made it! I've made it on the AV club message board!

I'm pretty sure I did not condone the murder of any children. Or imply that I did. I have a strict policy against child murder personally. But it's a bit simplistic to call allied pilots or nat turner child murderers and leave it at that. But way to keep it civil!

Ive read before that while Truman desegregated the army on paper, it was Eisenhower who did it in reality. This was of course when the Repubs had a much better reputation on matters of race.

Its a bit like thinking about all the children burned and buried alive by Allied bombing during WW2, compared to the nessicity of shortening the war, as well as reckoning in who unleashed the war. There is no clean answer. Those infants did not deserve to be killed by Nat Turner but neither did he deserve to be born…

If the movie is an important piece of art about something that needs to be illuminated, does it matter where it comes from? I guess that is the basic question.
This is an almost perfect ethical quandry.