Posted on 05/29/2009 4:58:41 AM PDT by Leisler
Not 'depopulating'. Different word, way way different meaning.
Anyways, the same dynamics in NY are, have happened in most major cities, the rise of the leftist through the institutions, coupled with as Clemenza pointed out, Lindsey, and I, with Rockefeller Republican liberal RINO's and the flight of any populations core cadre of the middle class.
And, in case you hadn't notice, this is a site for nothing but opinion, and I think New York can take one more.
Why did they shoot him, was he threatening the other officers, or was it because he had a gun?
This is a working theme of mine. The laws are irrational. So who would work to enforce irrational laws? Irrational people, or people who either by nature, or occupational adaptation turn off independent thought and become bureaucratic automatons.
So, you have some place in America where, I suppose, some sort of special uber citizen has guns and can defend himself and property just fine. Then for some reason, New Yorkers are mentally, morally, or physically not able to do this, and laws have been implemented to protect them from themselves.
How the NYPD recruits from this weird population, with this weird gun disease, and then by some magic makes them gun capable, escapes me.
Of course the above is all bunk, and up until the rise of leftist, Marxist era Progressives, just before the turn of the 1900’s, New Yorker had plenty of guns, and were, by order of magnitude a much poorer population, from all over of different ‘cultures’ and with out the modern ID’s and every other clutter of the modern security bureaucracy.
So, we have irrational politicians, making irrational laws, that you must either be irrational or mentally shut down to enforce.
And, this is good exactly how?
Dark, black man running with gun, late at night( three strike right there), and anti-thought, designed, military style shoot don’t shoot drills that pattern a person to shoot.
Mix, shake, get outcome. Shooting officer alive first and foremost.
I’m not sure that when you look at the system, the design, the planning, training of the Police, that anything was done wrong.
I’ve always said, that upon careful inspection we are all criminals now. Now, the shooting officer will be gone through and some fault will be found on him, not the system. Maybe not. I’m sure the NYPD union knows the in’s and outs of the Rabbinical hairsplitting, mindboggling, irrational rules that officers are under and will find a loophole.
It’s the paper shuffling, rule churning, law dumping, code enforcing, ordinance mountains, lawyer spawning dysfunctional world we live in.
Idiotic palaver by the crypto Marxist, Hero of the Trans Fat/Smoking Wars.
No one finds out 'exactly' what happens. It will happen again because people are people. Yet more rules, more regs, more layers upon layers....
My pro-gun argument tends to hinge upon evidence (No.. PROOF) that firearm ownership, appropriate and easily available training as well as issue-awareness CREATES a better citizen.
Never before have I been more aware of the world of defense, laws, morality and good-manners as I had after being given basic NRA approved firearms training. It’s made me a nicer person. And still, some of the nicest people can be found at gun stores and shooting ranges.
Um..
Texas, the South, have reputations for old time courtesy, and have lots of guns.
New Yorkers are thought to be rude and have, basically, no guns.
“Yeah and I was going to say I re read it and found my error before some moron without manners asked me if I knew how to read.”
If you make a mistake, it’s more than ironic for you to call the people who corrected you morons. Better to say “oops I made a mistake”, or at least nothing at all.
Mind your own business. I’m not the one who spouted “can you read”.
And he/she is not the one who completely misread the article, therby opening him/herself up to some as should be expected ribbing. Time to lighten up or risk creating another epic thread which will be referenced for years to come.
Since when do you get to shoot a guy running away from you?
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