Posted on 04/22/2008 12:53:38 PM PDT by Califreak
OAKLAND, Calif. (KCBS) -- Oakland police are worried that more and more people will take the law into their own hands, after two store owners shot two robbers in recent days. People have a right to protect themselves, but things can get out of hand quickly if everyone starts packing a weapon, said Deputy Police Chief Dave Kozicki.
"That's a concern that law enforcement has all the time, that people will engage in vigilantism," said Kozicki.
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.
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.
Seems these people who justifiably and successfully defended themselves should receive Citizen of the Year nominations.
Some Deputy Police Chief.
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.
IMO, if everyone was packing, crime would go down—there would be fewer jerks who decide stealing, killing or maiming is a good idea!
That’s not a gun-it’s a cannon! LOL!
To liberals, words have no fixed meaning. They mean whatever the liberal wants them to mean. Tomorrow they may mean the opposite.
As well as for doing his job that theyre paying him to do in the first place...
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, ask this douche what effect he thinks a few robbers being shot and killed will have on the crime rate.
Beyond belief.
Deputy Police Chief.
Hopefully the Chief doesn’t have rocks like that in his head.
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.
Public: Do you expect me to defend myself?
Chief: We expect you to die, Mr. Public.
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.
how can things get out of hand? once all the criminals are dead things will quiet right down...
“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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