Posted on 10/07/2007 12:08:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PSYCHO STABBER
HERO COP'S SHOT ENDS BLOODY SPREE
By PETER COX, ERIKA MARTINEZ and LUKAS I. ALPERT
October 7, 2007 -- A rampaging maniac unleashed a bloodbath yesterday when he stole knives from a restaurant, slashed an employee, and then savagely hacked away at an elderly Manhattan psychologist walking her dog, cops said.
The madman was only stopped when a hero off-duty cop eating his breakfast in a nearby diner in Murray Hill intervened and shot him.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If only someone like person had been armed at Virginia Tech.
But the media doesn’t want to talk about that.
If he wasn’t an off duty cop, he would be facing serious firearms charges and possible life in prison for having the temerity to be armed in NYC. After all, we don’t need firearms - that’s what the police are for.
Idiot Liberals hate guns, but it was someone armed with a gun who stopped this maniac. Years ago a machete wielding psycho hacked up many people on the Staten island Ferry. He was stopped by a retired cop who was armed with a gun. I loathe Lieberals.
Liberals would demand that the person who shot their precious “noble homeless” man be sentenced a harsh prison term. Look what they did to Bernard Goetz.
Why wasn’t this guy locked up somewhere?
The Supreme Court said you can’t in the early 80’s. That is how the homeless problem really got started.
It’ s too early for Mayor Bloomberg to have weighed in yet. I know he is looking for a way to prosecute this guy for the evil deed of repressing this poor man’s method of ‘self-expression’. That’s it! It was performance art!
Good! One less criminal in our world.
If he’d been an on-duty cop, he’d have been even worse off. My daughter is a police officer, and a shooting means basically that the cop becomes public enemy #1 and every prosecutor in the city is out trying to pin murder charges on him. And if they don’t get a conviction, then the civil suits begin. She has seen fellow cops lose their jobs, their homes and in one case even be driven to suicide over perfectly justified shootings (such as this one).
Your daughter’s story prompts me to quote Chuck Heston, “Its a madhouse! A madhouse!”
This one may interest you.
Liberals. Don’t ya just love ‘em?
Ask Jimmy Carter. He's the one's who emptied the asylums - he espouses that these people have a right to their freedoms - which, for them, was homelessness...and for society, a spike in crime.
I could tell from the headline it was from the Post. The Times lead will be “Police Shoot Homeless Man”, with a sub-lead of “Dog put at risk by police action”. The knife won’t appear until the third paragraph.
Will NYC liberal gun grabbers finally wise up? Or do these sheep always depend on their shepard to kill the wolves
I admit I haven’t dug into this, but wasn’t it Reagan who “emptied the asylums?”
Originally, the idea was to take the deinstitutionalized and put them into halfway houses. This raised the ire of the NIMBY crowd, and state legislatures did not want to finance outpatient treatment. So, the states took the easy route and dumped them on the streets and/or gave them vouchers to SRO hotels and decaying motels.
So no, the phenomenon predated the Reagan administration, although I believe that he signed the first deinsitutionalization reforms when he was governor of California.
Never. Most NYers view the NYPD as a civil defense force that will protect them at all times.
As soon as I sent that post, it occured to me that this is exactly the sort of problem a leftist would create, and then blame the inevitable disaster on "heartless conservatives."
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