Posted on 01/11/2012 7:34:45 AM PST by TSgt
It is interesting that all the gun owners I know very much support law and order and the police. This Harless guy was obviously more a prodemrat union stooge than he was a policeman.
I find the idea of putting a guy using the PTSD defense back out on the street as a cop to be criminally vaccuous.
Ya’ll need to be on your guard when your community pols start talking about consolidating police forces in neighboring small towns. You do not want to wake up someday and find you’re under the thumb of a national police force. Sometimes alledged “inefficiences” are a good thing.
Just look at what’s happened with regionalized schools. The quality of education has declined and the teacher unions have become nothing more than an arm of the Marxist demrat party. Too many teachers are bringing their Marxist politics into the class rooms.
Doesn’t it bother anyone in the least, but me, that today’s schools get ever so excited about graduating students with the equivalent of a 1950s 8th grade education?
We have one rule in my house that has lead to twenty-five years of marital harmony. It is considered inviolable, and it applies perfectly, here.
You can ask for my help, or tell me what you want me to do...you DO NOT get to do both.
The two concepts are becoming increasingly distant relations.
PTSD you say? Turn in your gun with your badge, genius. You have mental instability issues. You can’t even get a CCW now.
And cowardice is not a disability.
I’m not yet that pessimistic. I think it’s more a matter of particular police departments and particular policemen/women. Even an in an antigun state like NJ, where I obtained my permit to purchase a hand gun, you can find both helpful and obstructionist police departments and policemen/women.
In NJ it is almost impossible for an ordinary citizen to obtain a CCP. However, the town police officer who over saw the gun purchase permit program could not have been more helpful. She advised me if there was a bottleneck it would be the State Police part of the vetting process. As it turned out I had my permit in about a week. Perhaps my having been career military had something to do with it as my life was an open book and on record.
Unfortuntely and all too often the wrong people seek and are selected for police officers. By that I mean it seems people who were bullys as kids go for law enforcement. I believe it’s a means for these miscreants to satisfy their need for power over other people. Harless was undoubtedly one of these people.
Bottom line: I still try to judge each police departmemnt and police officer individually. I will support and respect them until they prove unworthy.
To a resident of Florida, such as myself, this sounds like you lionizing the cop that snagged you in his speed trap because he ticketed you for a lower speed than he claims to have clocked you at.....
Is it "legal?" Sure. But it's no less legal if he's a prick about it. The problem is the will to enforce "legal gamesmanship," not the comportment with which that enforcement is carried out.
Claiming “medical problems” when caught in a jam is an old political ploy. The first one I remember was Nixon having an attack of phlebitis when Watergate blew up. After that, almost every politician or crook (I repeat myself) that was caught in the act showed up in court in a wheelchair and under “doctor’s care” - and with a wink-wink-nudge-nudge, the courts bought most of it.
I think, as others pointed out, it’s a win-win for this guy. He gets off the hook and rubs it in by getting an untaxable lifetime disability income. Others, somewhere, are taking notes.
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