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law and disorder .. 30+ cops, 1 guy with machete, guy lives. why?

 
 


Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   on 05/18/2011 at 01:30 PM   
 
  1. Guns? Ha, they could have used spears. Or halberds! Or a spring launched sticky net. Or a hockey stick! No way it required 30 officers to respond.

    Posted by Drew458    United States   05/18/2011  at  02:38 PM  

  2. It looks like a modern days Keystone Cops.  They finally get the guy down and suddenly all these brave officers rush in.

    Posted by BobF    United States   05/18/2011  at  09:04 PM  

  3. Couldn’t we send them some Tazers on a lend lease basis?

    Posted by grayjohn    United States   05/19/2011  at  04:49 AM  

  4. Guns are useless for cops here in the states - Our local ‘news’ ran an entire series for a week - TEN YEARS LATER - re: a 19 yo. shot by a cop.  He had 14 outstanding warrants (umm, wouldn’t that scare the sh*t out of a cop at 2AM?!?) too bad, so sad that this great tech that gets the 14 warrants couldn’t label them TRAFFIC offenses. Our victim ran from two beat cops he KNEW, wonder why? Critics claim our ‘victim’ thought his warrants (he did do jail time - umm, who serves time for TRAFFIC OFFENSES) - So the cops have 14 warrants, jail time (i.e. appears to be a criminal) - If it walks like a duck, has a rap sheet like a duck and runs - Who blames the cops from thinking he is a CRIMINAL? The cop was acquitted (wikipedia uses the most blatant liberal rag (I use to use it to line the kitty boxes - it’s free) as an ‘independent local magazine’ as a source for it’s ‘analysis’ of traffic violations (i.e. blacks were twice as likely to be cited). And our news thinks that this is so vitally important to dredge up and keep ‘the hate, distrust and anger’ going for another 10 years.
    Anyway - now our cops are being taken to court for using tasers - I can’t tell you the last time a cop used a gun - wait I can, a black female cop shot a guy after he shot her black female partner - and yes, they took her to court too. So guns, not so much here - and now the bleeding hearts are going after tasers.

    And the criminals just keep on keeping on - and the city sucks after dark and is losing money hand over fist - as no one with any real money wants to live down there - wonder why?!?

    Posted by wardmama4    United States   05/19/2011  at  07:52 AM  

  5. All of them cops and not one of them had a gun drawn?  They charge after the guy with a garbage bin.  Do the bobbies even carry a gun?  Well what do you expect from a police force that has a siren that sounds like toddler taunting his little sister. (NEE NOO NEE NOO NEE NOO).  Once they chose that as their siren sound, it was downhill from there. 

    I would just love to see how they would respond to a situation similar to the 1997 LA North Hollywood bank robbery gone awry.  Could you imagine?  Just key up the Benny Hill theme song and sit back and watch the laughs pour in. 

    What happened to our British cousins?  First they let a bunch of rabble rousers take their best land away from them and now this.  They used to be the biggest badasses in history with a huge navy and they took no crap from nobody.  Back when the King was a real authority figure and knew how to rule a country.  Now a single looney with a machete requires 30+ cops and they still take forever and can’t remedy the situation without looking like a 1920’s keystone cops movie.  They are truly doomed and if it wasn’t kinda funny, it would be quite sad.  The tragic part is...America is next.

    Posted by sdkar    United States   05/19/2011  at  01:29 PM  

  6. Well the truth is they do have armed response units but not very many. Also most of them have tazers, but with the civil rights lobby eager to go to court on the side of the perps the police are often unwilling to use them. Much lik ethe situation Wardmama describes. In London there are lots of armed response units because there are a lot of bad people with guns. That whole hand gun ban thing didn’t really work out too well. As predicted it didn’t stop the bad guys getting hold of guns.

    However the real issue here (aside from the stupidity of the situation) is the country has since WW2 been slipping into a police state. What I mean is like most authoritarian (and generally socialist countries) since the two tend to go hand in hand. Successive governments both left and right have eroded gun ownership rights. When I was a young lad back in the early 70’s you could get a shotgun license at the Post Office. Now you have to be interviewd, prove you have a cabinet to store the guns and they want the name of your Doctor to confirm you are not barking mad or even depressed.

    Gun control means to me that the government doesn’t trust the people. That bothers me because government as Lincoln said at Gettyburg is “of the people, by the people, for the people” We should have the right to throw them out, but if only the police and army have guns then you have lost that right.

    Posted by LyndonB    United Kingdom   05/20/2011  at  02:56 PM  

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