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Cops 3: Shoot low boys -- they're ridin' Shetland ponies!

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If the police are present, which they were, the correct action for a CCW holder is to stand down and let the police handle the situation.

Which is what the "person of interest" did in Dallas. I'm betting someone he knows tipped him off that his picture was being plastered all over the news. He found some officers and handed over his weapon.
 
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So say hypothetically that we actually manage to get decent gun control through that started to put progress towards managing the issue.

We hear so much about admirable, law-abiding citizens who own cases full of guns from the gun backers here. Everyone can be admirable and law abiding if things go exactly as they want. We'd really get a chance to see just how friendly and peaceful gun-loving folks really are if real gun control kicked off.

I don't think it's realistic to think any gun control restrictions would ever pass that makes it illegal to own weapons already legally purchased/owned.

I think the one rare gun control measure that could pass would be a limit on total sales per annum within each class - which I suppose would be Pistol, Revolver, Rifle, Shotgun, and “Other”?

Victim blaming? Come on....you guys are better than that.

Who dat?
 
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You know where the "don't snitch" mentality comes from? Decades of police abuse. It was created because the police acted as an invading force putting their communities virtually under siege. Sorry but the onus is on the police in this country, until there is a fundamental change in the ways police forces conduct themselves, and their attitude towards said changes, then its frankly ridiculous to tell minorities they need to change as well.

So, if one doesn't change, the other shouldn't either? Are you sure you really want to say that?

And Slap: I just saw some links on FB about that take on things. I read that the description included dreadlocks, with some of the locks coming out the back of the hat, wider nose, a little facial hair above the lip/on the chin.

This take may or may not be for real. At first glance, it screams "hoax by cop fanboy."
 
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I don't think it's realistic to think any gun control restrictions would ever pass that makes it illegal to own weapons already legally purchased/owned.

I think the one rare gun control measure that could pass would be a limit on total sales per annum within each class - which I suppose would be Pistol, Revolver, Rifle, Shotgun, and “Other”?

Hard to say. Assault Ban of 2015 has a third of the house as co signers and such a ban has 57% of public support. Seven states and the district already have bans on said weapons.
 
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So for gun supporters, Brent, whoever.

Say you live in a dangerous part of town (no. Minneapolis) and you have gangs of younger guys ranging around outside of your house you know have guns. This is a daily occurance because its legal. And the government is totally cool with this set up. Don't you think you'd be kind of upset about the status quo and the fact that the government does absolutely nothing to manage the problem and frankly has no interest in that? Remember gangs with guns outside your house with your children around happens 24 hours a day.

Does that anger seem unreasonable at all?
 
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So for gun supporters, Brent, whoever.

Say you live in a dangerous part of town (no. Minneapolis) and you have gangs of younger guys ranging around outside of your house you know have guns. This is a daily occurance because its legal. And the government is totally cool with this set up. Don't you think you'd be kind of upset about the status quo and the fact that the government does absolutely nothing to manage the problem and frankly has no interest in that? Remember gangs with guns outside your house with your children around happens 24 hours a day.

Does that anger seem unreasonable at all?

And none of these gang bangers have a prior record that precludes them from owning a gun? I call BS on that.
 
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So at another website a guy is arguing the dead guy in MN put the cop on edge because he supposedly matched the description of a robbery suspect BOLO issued the day before. The photo of the perp robbing the store shows a black man (but of course) of whatever height, with facial hair above and blow his lips but no wider than his chin, the dead man has facial hair running up the entire side of his face. Also the perp was wearing a hat completely concealing his hair style. But I suppose dark-skinned so SAMESIES! And people wonder why minorities are on edge - it's not just the cops that put them all into one bucket.

I mean the guy actually wrote this: "For God's sake at least from a distance wouldn't you think they look at least similar?"

The cop fanboy sites are putting all sorts of stuff out there like how the victim was in the Crips and had a criminal record...which of course is false since the guy had a conceal/carry but twists the story enough to poison the public view of the incident. This is step one, they will do everything possible to impeach the victim. The cop has already said he shot him cause he feared he was reaching for a gun...there is almost a zero chance this cop gets punished beyond losing his job.

I see ther NRA put out a full statement about the Dallas shootings...still nothing (outside of the empty platitude of "wait til we hear more" ) about the MN shooting...gee I wonder why that is.
 
The cop fanboy sites are putting all sorts of stuff out there like how the victim was in the Crips and had a criminal record...which of course is false since the guy had a conceal/carry but twists the story enough to poison the public view of the incident. This is step one, they will do everything possible to impeach the victim. The cop has already said he shot him cause he feared he was reaching for a gun...there is almost a zero chance this cop gets punished beyond losing his job.

This what I'm talking about. The blue wall is already closed up and defending this guy through any means necessary. And this happens every time! There's plenty of officers out there who know this is wrong but will do nothing publicly to stop it. And that builds the perception that a police officer can do anything and not be punished, that leads to anger and frustration in people, and anger and frustration leads to stupid, irrational decisions like shooting police officers.
 
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This what I'm talking about. The blue wall is already closed up and defending this guy through any means necessary. And this happens every time! There's plenty of officers out there who know this is wrong but will do nothing publicly to stop it. And that builds the perception that a police officer can do anything and not be punished, that leads to anger and frustration in people, and anger and frustration leads to stupid, irrational decisions like shooting police officers.

Remember that part of that is also the union not allowing cops to speak out. It is a huge no no.
 
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You know where the "don't snitch" mentality comes from? Decades of police abuse. It was created because the police acted as an invading force putting their communities virtually under siege. Sorry but the onus is on the police in this country, until there is a fundamental change in the ways police forces conduct themselves, and their attitude towards said changes, then its frankly ridiculous to tell minorities they need to change as well.

I have to bring this up. You are not totally wrong, BUT, not snitching goes back further than that: Omerta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omertà
 
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I don't really get the point of this story. I mean I get that it tries to paint a picture that police officers sometimes have to make split second decisions, and some of those decisions have life or death consequences. But to illustrate how easy it supposedly is to make the WRONG decision and either die or kill an unarmed person, let's take two people who don't do this, haven't been trained to do this, and know that at the end of the day passing or failing this test means nothing permanent. It's a ridiculous scenario.

I've had jobs and performed volunteer community service where had I had no training and just been thrown out there I could easily have been seriously injured or killed, or seriously injured or killed another person. They didn't let me out there until I was trained and could prove to someone who had taken on the responsibility to measure my ability to perform the requisite tasks said I was ready to go.

Police officers are trained in use of force scenarios. Thorough training includes many different scenarios, from potential danger during a traffic stop, to a domestic incident, to hostage situations, to things like we see in the video where not a lot of information is known and things can change rapidly. Good police officers take this training seriously and good police departments refresh the training. Through training they should be able to function in a way where fear is not the first or primary emotion that dictates their response.

The two civilians in this video cannot be expected to perform anywhere near as competently as we must demand our police officers to do. I'm sorry but this video really should not have told a thinking person anything they did not already know.
 
Remember that part of that is also the union not allowing cops to speak out. It is a huge no no.
And as pro-union as I am, I don't like that. That is, at least in my opinion, very wrong. As a union your members should not only be allowed to speak truthfully and freely but it should be encouraged.
 
I have to bring this up. You are not totally wrong, BUT, not snitching goes back further than that: Omerta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omertà
And Omertà comes from the exact same kind of background that "don't snitch!" comes from. Poor, little education, and severe lack of opportunity. Why should I help the authorities with the mafioso when the authorities never help me and the mafioso does? Why should I help a cop when all they do is break down our doors or pull us over or lock up my friends and family?
 
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Dallas PD headquarters under lock down "serious threat"
 
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And as pro-union as I am, I don't like that. That is, at least in my opinion, very wrong. As a union your members should not only be allowed to speak truthfully and freely but it should be encouraged.


To compare the FOP (and most police unions whether FOP-affiliated or not) to unions in general(no matter your opinion of labor unions) is like comparing the hockey I play to the hockey that Jonathan Toews plays. You might be able to say we're both playing hockey but we are not playing the same game by any stretch.
 
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