Posted on 07/14/2018 2:42:48 AM PDT by T-Bird45
Yeah, a bad incident happened recently where a guy was breaking up a fight, and had dropped his pistol, then when the police showed up he insisted on picking it up. It ended in awful tragedy.
I love a happy ending.
Right there the system was saved a BUNCH of money.
Police spokesperson worried about hypotheticals, but in the meantime people are being shot. One deals with the immediacy of stopping the active threat.
Excellent point about being in the moment rather than running a series of “what ifs” in your head.
But police also noted that armed citizens can complicate volatile situations. The first of 57 uniformed police officers arrived just a minute after the initial 911 calls and found a complex scene with multiple armed people and no clear sense of what had happened or who was responsible.
“We don’t want people to be vigilantes,” Bo Mathews, a spokesman for the Oklahoma City Police Department, said in a recent interview. “That’s why we have police officers.”
Note for the idiots at the WaPo: A "vigilante" is someone who hunts a criminal down without the legal authority to do so, and frequently also metes out punishment apart from the law. An armed citizen responding with deadly force to an active shooter is not a "vigilante".
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