Police race to match criminals' firepower, Congress owns blame (Propaganda alert)

The Morning Journal ^ | 03/24/2008 | The Morning Journal

[eclecticEel]

The majority of cops go through their entire career without ever firing their gun, whether that be an ‘assault rifle’ or the standard issue sidearm.

[wastedyears]

These people are plain stupid. I’d love to have a nice little press conference with them.

It would be in a junior high school, with their regular desks. If I had one person to help me out, it might be Ted Nugent.

I’d proceed to treat them like little children, explaining to them that a .22 is the chosen caliber of criminals.

[Domandred]

Did some followup google searching and it seems that Police Chief Scott Knight has made the news several times as an anti-gunner. Did some checking on his town of Chaska Minn and seems pretty damned peaceful there. Nice and quiet and lower then average crime rate for Minnesota.

Me thinks Scott Knight just wanted to buy those AR-15’s for his police force and needed to find an excuse.

[RoadKingSE]

LOL, this buffoon continues to claim that during the AW ban, everything was cool, but suddenly after it expired, gangs, thugs and cop killers just stocked up and started shooting cops.

"Good afternoon my good man. I and a dozen of my amigos from the Mara Salvatrucha fraternity would like to purchase several AR-15 semi-automatic weapons so that we might engage in self-defense preparations as well as some leisurely watermelon plinking. Would you be a good chap and wrap those up and throw in a couple of thousand rounds of 5.56mm before the next LAPD shift change? Thank you ever so much."

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The left-wing extremists in Cleveland are getting panicky that the US Supremes won’t rule in their favor?

[Jaxter]

There was actually a guy in the Strip District over the weekend that for some unknown reason started firing a .22 pistol at a passing car. He was very unlucky that the car was an unmarked police car carrying 2 homocide detectives that stopped, got out and proceeded to put 7 rounds into him.

[theFIRMbss]

>the car was an unmarked police car carrying 2 homocide detectives that stopped, got out and proceeded to put 7 rounds into him

[brazzaville]

Good morning.

How many were shot with their own weapon?

Michael Frazier

[Joe Brower]

I didn't know that Bushmaster made M-14s.

[Solitar]

Military style weapons are exactly what will be needed to water the Tree of Liberty.

Exactly! The Second Amendment was intended for average citizens to keep an bear military-class arms to combat an enemy military. Of course such weapons would then be able to combat a police force gone rogue.

[ctdonath2]

On average, about half.

[papertyger]

see my new tagline.

[from occupied ga]

That slurping noise you hear is the Morning Journal's editoral staff's collective tongues licking the anal orifices of the jackbooted freedom haters.

[Sender]

"Certainly, amigos. Would you like the latest Bloomberg collection variants with brick-and-mortar prints, or perhaps the more reliable Kalashnikov gas system uppers? Excellent. I'll get the ammo."

"Now, I'll just need your valid USA drivers license and we'll do a quick computer check. No, it must be American. Yes, even if you pay in cash, I'm sorry. No, you can't have your sister come in and pick them up. No, I don't want your sister. I'm sorry, but you'll just have to shop in a poorly-regulated Southern state where gun show dealers illegally sell machine guns out of the trunks of their cars, placing the lives of our brave police officers in danger. Or you can just ask anyone on a streetcorner in LA. You can get anything you want. We're bound by the law, you understand. You boys come back when you're legal, OK?"

[B4Ranch]

Are the officers ok?

[PeteB570]

Not an M-14 or AR but here is a BM 7.62

http://www.bushmaster.com/bcs/BCWBCSR20.asp?zoom_highlight=7%2E62

I do think the 6.8mm’s are cute.

[Jaxter]

I think one of them was hit in the arm. I don’t think it was serious. I’ll see if I can find a link.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Militarized “law enforcement” agencies are the standing army our Founders feared.

[Jaxter]

I was wrong. The detective was shot in the lower back. This all happened about 2 blocks from where I work. I don't think the perp was a local as the Spaghetti Warehouse is 1 block from one of the largest police stations in the 'burgh. Also, there was another fatal shooting about 4 blocks from this one on the same night(Friday).

LINK HERE!

[Sender]

Militarized “law enforcement” agencies are the standing army our Founders feared.

Exactly correct. So, immediately after first guaranteeing the right to free speech, they foresaw that problem and stated the solution.

Something about hunting, or sports, I believe.