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"Training for Colorado Cops to be less Trigger happy when it comes to your family pet".
The Daily Caller ^
| 04/09/2013
| Greg Campbell
Posted on 04/10/2013 8:05:11 AM PDT by Steamburg
Responding to a recent spate of trigger-happy cops blowing away the family pet under questionable circumstances, the Colorado Senate passed a bill on Tuesday requiring law enforcement officers be trained to recognize when theyre truly being threatened by an aggressive dog and not simply one thats frightened or playful.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/09/colorado-cops-to-be-trained-to-be-less-trigger-happy-around-dogs/#ixzz2Q4ahJ3is
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: banglist; cops; doggieping; dogs; donutwatch; legislators
Something rational for them to sink their teeth into. Finally, the Colorado Senate is working on a bill that has some merit and probably is within their range of abilities.
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:05:11 AM PDT
by
Steamburg
To: Steamburg
Makes sense, especially when it comes to pit bulls and rottweilers. Not all dogs are vicious, and in most cases (at least in my experience) they generally are posing and are not really a viable threat, if one just moves slow and takes their time.
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:14:49 AM PDT
by
Glennb51
To: Steamburg
This will help in the cases where the problem is truly ignorance.
It won’t help in the cases where the problem is sadism.
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:20:26 AM PDT
by
Altariel
("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
To: Steamburg
They’ll save the “trigger happiness” for Christians.
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:25:02 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
To: AnAmericanMother; Titan Magroyne; Badeye; SandRat; arbooz; potlatch; afraidfortherepublic; ...
WOOOF!
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:27:45 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
To: Steamburg
Why not just issue them tasers? The dog would survive.
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:32:56 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
To: Altariel
It wont help in the cases where the problem is sadism. Or performance-enhancing drugs...
Hey! I have an idea! How about keeping these cops away from anabolic steroids! Might also make them a little less sadistic...
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:33:30 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: COBOL2Java
That’s actually a very good idea. Testing for steroids.
To: Steamburg
If it’s like training where I work it means they have to look at a lame video for like 20 minutes and then answer some equally lame questions about said video.
To: Steamburg
I’m very glad to see this. Not sure that bill itself will do any good, but this put LEO’s on notice that the shooting of pets has come to the attention of the legislature. Think of it as a warning shot across their bow.
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posted on
04/10/2013 11:29:52 AM PDT
by
Ken H
To: Steamburg
This is a small step in the right direction. The whole paramilitary, swat thing needs to be taken down quite a few notches.
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posted on
04/10/2013 7:30:22 PM PDT
by
Colorado Doug
(Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
To: Steamburg
So the problem isn’t a bunch of childish, trigger-happy sociopaths but that there wasn’t a law to train them??
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posted on
04/10/2013 8:33:35 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
To: Steamburg
Barney Fife HAS to shoot something to assert his authority. If not the family dog, then what?
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posted on
04/11/2013 10:09:09 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: CodeToad
Are we talking about the cops, the legislators or the idiots that elect them?
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posted on
04/11/2013 10:09:17 AM PDT
by
Steamburg
(The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
To: Steamburg
Pretty much every one of those. :)
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posted on
04/11/2013 10:56:17 AM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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