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Oakland Police Worried About Increased Vigilantism
KCBS All News 740 AM ^
| April 21, 2008
| Bob Melrose
Posted on 04/22/2008 12:53:38 PM PDT by Califreak
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To: Califreak
Yeah, it's pretty disgusting.
"People have a right to protect themselves, but things can get out of hand quickly if everyone starts packing a weapon"
So you have a right to defend yourself, but not everyone should defend themselves properly... after all, that would be infringing on the cops' right to solve murders. I would like to see the deputy police chief try to prove that "things get out of hand" as lawful concealed carry rates increase... His talk is nothing but B.S.
To: Califreak
Oakland police are worried that more and more people will take the law into their own hands . . .Oakland police need to be reminded that the law is already in the hands of the people. The people have deputized the police to enforce the law. If the police are unwilling or unable to do so, the people have every right to do it themselves or replace the police with someone who will enforce the law, starting with the nimrod who made this statement.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:01:04 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
((Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud))
To: Califreak
Seems these people who justifiably and successfully defended themselves should receive Citizen of the Year nominations.
Some Deputy Police Chief.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:01:11 PM PDT
by
Will88
To: Califreak
"...but things can get out of hand quickly if everyone starts packing a weapon, said Deputy Police Chief Dave Kozicki." Yeah, life gets harder for the thugs and the police. The thugs because they get shot. The police because then they actuall have a crime and a criminal that can be prosecuted. That takes time.
Be good little victims while the cops and pols go through their hand-wringing rituals.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:01:12 PM PDT
by
telebob
To: Califreak
IMO, if everyone was packing, crime would go downthere would be fewer jerks who decide stealing, killing or maiming is a good idea!
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
That’s not a gun-it’s a cannon! LOL!
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:01:26 PM PDT
by
Califreak
(Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
To: GeorgiaDawg32
To liberals, words have no fixed meaning. They mean whatever the liberal wants them to mean. Tomorrow they may mean the opposite.
To: pissant
What a flaming a**hole. He should be thanking the owners for ridding the world of a scumbag. As well as for doing his job that theyre paying him to do in the first place...
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:01:50 PM PDT
by
Gilbo_3
(Choose Liberty over slavery... the gulag awaits ANY compromise with evil...LiveFReeOr Die...)
To: Califreak
A 22-year-old Oakland man was shot at least three times and critically wounded when he tried to hold up a liquor store Saturday night. And an 18-year-old Pittsburg teenager was shot and wounded when he tried to rob a store last Thursday night. That's two off the street, although it seems a shame they're still wasting oxygen. The Chief seems to think it's a bad thing. I figure firearms training is cheaper than prison. And lots less stressful to society than rampant crime.
Maybe if the Chief would take the enforcement of the law back into his hands the citizens wouldn't have to take it into their own. Just a thought.
To: RonF
The sheriff should be made to work the late shift - unarmed - at a crime-riddled Quick Stop for a few months. His talk is easy because he’s packing.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:02:16 PM PDT
by
Eurale
To: Califreak
A historical note: some of San Francisco’s downtown streets are named after prominent leaders of the city’s “Committees of Vigilance” in the 1850s.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:02:31 PM PDT
by
flying_bullet
(El Conservo tribe member)
To: Slapshot68
Yeah, ask this douche what effect he thinks a few robbers being shot and killed will have on the crime rate.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:02:51 PM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Califreak
To: Billthedrill
Deputy Police Chief.
Hopefully the Chief doesn’t have rocks like that in his head.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:03:31 PM PDT
by
Califreak
(Hangin' with Hunter-under the bus "Dread and Circuses")
To: PeterFinn
Better note to self: avoid oakland at all costs.
I was there once. Never again.
To: a_different_conservative
like “semi-automatic”
I had a lib relative arguing with me about gun control.
He said, “why would anyone need a semi-automatic?”
I said - “tell me how a semi-automatic works”.
dunno
“well, what IS a semi-automatic to you”
shrug
“do you think you should know what things mean before you advocate a stance on this issue?”
silence, but the answer was in the negative - you can take a stance based on no info if you’re a lib.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:05:28 PM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Califreak
Police Chief Auric Goldfinger to the public:
Public: Do you expect me to defend myself?
Chief: We expect you to die, Mr. Public.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:05:32 PM PDT
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
To: messierhunter
I would like to see the deputy police chief try to prove that "things get out of hand" as lawful concealed carry rates increase... Well, just look at the horrible bloodbath that happened in Florida when they allowed concealed carry. Oh, it didn't happen. The gun-grabbers said that it most certainly would.
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:05:38 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Califreak
how can things get out of hand? once all the criminals are dead things will quiet right down...
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:06:57 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
To: Califreak
“Oakland police are worried that more and more people will take the law into their own hands”
Just who’s law is it anyway? It’s ours! It doesn’t belong to some alien from Neptune ....
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posted on
04/22/2008 1:07:16 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("I Believe In Law Until It Interferes With Justice")
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