admin hat still off
Painting LE with the WAco/Ruby Ridge brush is just 100%
exactly like Anti's painting all of us with the Dylan Klebold, Oklahoma Bomber or the recent White Supremecist Shooter Brush. 100% exactly the same. Were they Gun owners? Yes. They had Guns. They used them irresponsibly and illegally, but they used Guns.
Now, if some punk uses a badge to do something wrong, is it fair to indict everyone else with a badge?
If you really think so, fine.. but plesae don't bitch in any other threads about how the anti's want to take away your guns because of a few isolated irresponsible criminals.
That's what cops who truly abuse the system are, isolated irresponsible criminals. I'm not talking about pulling over a Blonde in a Sportscar instead of an old man in a truck, nor am I talking about barking orders to someone in an uncontrolled situation instaead of saying "please" one thousand times.. I'm talking about the sicko in New York with the mop handle and thing for Homosexual SadoMasochism, that guy was not acting as a cop anymore than Dylan Klebold was acting as a "gun owner".
The
politicians who were responsible for the planning at Waco and Ruby Ridge weren't cops either. Even if they didn't hold elected positions, the guys who planned the start of both those situations were playing political games.. looking to further their career and/or standing through the events. I think that LE has learned some very valubale lessons from both incidents.. and I think that is why we don't have any
recent events like them. I've heard both of those incidents derided by cops at least as often, if not
more often than I have from non-cops.
For those of you who begin to think that being ready to protect yourself and your family is anywhere close to the same as going out into a "bad part of town" to protect the rights of some lazy-welfare-abusing almost-no-noticable-redeeming-quality resident of your commmunity, you haven't got a clue. Being a Cop means a lot more than trying to figure out how to get a no-knock warrant or trying to abuse the little control you have over situations.
I highly encourage those of you with any doubt of that fact to make arranements with your local LEA to go on a "ride-along".. most angencies allow them. You'll sign a waiver, most likely leave your gun home, and go ride around with a patrol officer for a shift. You will see just how generally boring LE work generally is. You might get a glimpse of how it can instantly turn into the highest adrenaline-rush-stress-scene imaginable. Either way, I think you might have a better picture in your head of what regular street cops do, as oposed to the headline grabbing members of HRTs, NTFs, OSIs and WDETs.
Furthermore, getting back to the idea of protecting yourself and behaving.. that is simply what is expected of every non-retarded member of society. If you think that such behavior deserves a "thank you" then you are contributing to the downfall of our civilization. Why would anyone think that they are not expected, as a member of society, to do those things? "Thank You" is for doing something extra, not for doing the absolute minimum.
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-Essayons