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Only problem with that is that we are at record low unemployment.
Have to agree with this. It can be a tough job but you signed up for it with all its perks and responsibilities, and the union protects this guy? Also it changes the lamestream media's story quite dramatically yet they are ignoring it again. KD rages here:
mell saysHave to agree with this. It can be a tough job but you signed up for it with all its perks and responsibilities, and the union protects this guy? Also it changes the lamestream media's story quite dramatically yet they are ignoring it again. KD rages here:
I see both sides, one that he was cowardly but two, when there have been multiple LEOs responding (UVa, Columbine), they've often lollygagged outside the building(s) for much longer than 4 minutes during an active shooting.
I don't want the Sheriff to throw this guy under the bus and get himself and his department off scot free, and there's a reason not to charge into a building with an active shooter and you don't know where he is or even what he looks like, on the other hand this was a time-critical situation.
Also it changes the lamestream media's story quite dramatically yet they are ignoring it again. KD rages here:
I don't want the Sheriff to throw this guy under the bus and get himself and his department off scot free, and there's a reason not to charge into a building with an active shooter and you don't know where he is or even what he looks like, on the other hand this was a time-critical situation.
If a cop is looking to ride out time waiting for retirement, a school isn't the place for him. Send him out writing parking tickets.
Do you really want a guy whose main job is intimidating children with his pot belly flinging lead around a combat zone full of children, especially with a hand gun? Not to mention the sheer confusion of the situation.
I spend time in an area where firecracker assholes are common. The firecrackers sound like gunfire, and you can reliably seldom tell where they are coming from. If they were live rounds, and you went by sound, you probably would wind up in the wrong spot and the damage would have been done somewhere else, anyway.
Unless this guy had a clear line of sight at an obvious shooter by accident, it was probably better for everybody that he just stay out of the way and let the rest of the goons handle it.
Unless this guy had a clear line of sight at an obvious shooter by accident, it was probably better for everybody that he just stay out of the way and let the rest of the goons handle it.
Yeah but then he wasn't fit for the job and shouldn't have been in this job in the first place. Get a thoroughly trained guy without potbelly, pay a little extra - it's worth it.
What percentage of trained and Glock armed police/security would have engaged the shooter and his AR15 in that halfway? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?
What percentage of trained and Glock armed police/security would have engaged the shooter and his AR15 in that halfway? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?
Didn't save the article, but a Texas Cop defeated two thugs with both body armor and rifles with his pistol.
It's a more common situation than you think. A regularly practicing individual with a Pistol, at close ranges, does surprisingly well against a thug or two with a semiautomatic rifle and only a few trips to the range.
but a Texas Cop defeated two thugs with both body armor and rifles with his pistol.
What percentage of trained and Glock armed police/security would have engaged the shooter and his AR15 in that halfway? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?
"Why anyone would want to carry a heavy gun when we have police to protect us all?"
BayArea saysWhat percentage of trained and Glock armed police/security would have engaged the shooter and his AR15 in that halfway? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?
At "hallway distances" the rifle loses almost all of it advantages. So nothing wrong with engaging the rifle wielding fuck using a glock (and proper tactics like using cover and such).
"Why anyone would want to carry a heavy gun when we have police to protect us all?"
BayArea saysWhat percentage of trained and Glock armed police/security would have engaged the shooter and his AR15 in that halfway? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%?
75%+, maybe more, (that is if they're there to take the job seriously).
You think a security guy with tactical training won't take on a snot nosed random kid with a AR?
Ya, if they have a shot, they take it. Do they step into a hallway with a kid firing an AR? No, most won’t. I could be wrong but that’s my guess.
If this gun thing for your own safety is such a rip roaring good thing for school children etc. - then why are there 5 Places Hypocritical Republicans Ban Guns for Their Own Personal Safety ?
1. The White House
Along with making Mexico pay billions for a wall it opposed and never taking a golfing vacation, Trump promised on the campaign trail to legislate a future in which guns could legally be brought into every kindergarten classroom and nursery. “My first day, it gets signed, okay? My first day,” Trump told supporters in Vermont in 2016. “There’s no more gun-free zones.”
While it’s true no president could unilaterally scrap federal law, it’s also true that Trump’s complicit Republican Congress would probably greenlight any pro-gun horrorshow he could dream up. Yet, in the year since he took office, Trump has not spoken out once—even via his digital bullhorn at Twitter—against the anti-freedom gun ban at the White House. What better way for this president to sign...
mell saysDone, Next.
Not done - if this country has been reduced to having armed security at every venue, private and public school, university, church, shopping center, what have you - and the public accepts it because "nothing can be done about the problem" - we are no better than any Third World Nation in addition to slowly and surely losing just a bit more freedom each and every day "because nothing can be done about the problem" instead of demanding that heads roll in the streets (literally if necessary) to get something done about the problem.
The root cause is the moral panic that destroyed the huge Mental Health Network we used to have to house and care for the Mentally Ill.
That there are people today who haven't figured out that most homeless are seriously mentally ill and cannot be relied upon to dose themselves, even if we give them free meds, except with alcoholic and drugs. And mere drugs aren't the end all of treatment, and that whatever cocktail of drugs initially prescribed is seldom the correct one. "Stay a few weeks and Release" is not the answer. Nor are slumlord half-way homes.
Lobotomies are no longer done, Schizophrenia mostly has Genetic Origin, and Nurse Ratched is a fictional character. Re-Open Kings Park and repeal the Lanterman-Petris-Short
in California and other State Laws Modelled on that terrible mistake.
Schizophrenia isn't "Bad social dynamics in the Family" it's genetic, aggravated by certain situations such as severe infant fevers. That idea is from a book that came ...
mell saysI'd rather see free speech and metal detectors / security guards on Universities than no security and free speech restrictions
“I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag.”
mell saysHow is guarding public venues more unconstitutional than taking away the basic rights to own guns?
Your right to bear arms may interfere with my right to live in a country free from armed security at every turn of the corner, but please - do so answer the question.
"Accept the casualties, live in a police state with armed guards at every turn and have more freedom" ?
I'm pressed for time right now but I can check back later. Hopping from foot to foot in anticipation of this one.
mell sayswithout rough fatherly influence
How does that work then when someone turns into a looney tunes and shoots up everything insight and we find out he had one of those hero type rough fathers who used to put the fear of god and every other known entity in the kid ?
Clearly taking away guns from people everywhere is the bigger intrusion.
mell saysClearly taking away guns from people everywhere is the bigger intrusion.
I have lived in or visited for prolonged periods of time (months) many countries - Canada, EU (both west and east), Japan. Among all these countries, the US is the least safe and people have the least personal freedoms. Taking away your guns is your least problem.
None of these so called FREE!dom indexes measure access to ordnance. In the states, someone somewhere will sell you belt-fed guns to ensure no one fucks with your rights to personal security and mayhem making.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/23/police-officers-guard-home-deputy-assigned-to-florida-hs-who-never-went-in-during-shooting-report.html
Sat outside hiding behind some wall, avoiding doing what he signed up for. Coward.
Here's your typical government employee. Does minimum, avoids any work, waiting for their extravagant pension to kick in so they don't have to do any work even. Fricken worthless pieces of crap.