Trooper shot

Eric,
Your link works.....thanks.

But man, what was that 72 year old idiot thinking? The Officer and his family will be in our prayers.

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"Lead, follow or get the HELL out of the way."
 
Hmm.. gun-nuts aparently don't make good geeks. :D

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
 
The guy who shot him should be lined up in front of 5 marksmen.

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NRA Life Member
Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners(MCRGO)
 
Umkay.. now that I've actually read the article.. I wonder how long it is going to be before someone brings this up as an arguement to take "assualt-rifles" away from "law-abiding" citizens. :mad:

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God, Guns and Guts made this country a great country!
 
You can bet on it (ban AWs). This is in Austin, so a tragic event is going to be spun into anti-gun hysteria. Italics mine.

A minor example, "The slender, defiant, gray-haired man who stalked into the Hays County Jail . . .".

Now you could say that the reporter just misused words, but my cynicism tells me that "stalked" sounds a lot more sinister than "walked" or "strode". The disciples of Josef Goebbels are licking their chops.
 
Thank you enfield. I looked or a link last night when I posted the information in the thread regarding officers asking for a CCW holders gun during a traffic stop. There was not one available at the time.

I would like to ask every member reading this thread to also read or reread the two threads here regarding police officers asking to temporarily take charge of a CCW holders weapon during a traffic stop.

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Gunslinger
 
While this is certainly a tragic event, it bears no relation to legal CCW’s.

The trooper was shot before he even got close to the suspect. TDPS was already aware that this individual had a volatile nature.

It does represent a group of people’s attitudes concerning heavy-handed police tactics. Apparently Hale had a belly full and was ready to fight.

This incident will only serve to create tension between citizens and the police.

Skyhawk
 
No, it was not a handgun. No, it does not relate to CCW holders.
It does however, directly relate to those seemingly harmless "routine" traffic stops.

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Gunslinger
 
The radio yesterday afternoon reported it as a hunting rifle. Austin American Spaceman reports it as an assault rifle. I tend to believe the radio, given the leftward leanings of Austin journalists. Sounds very similar to the guy, who after months of dealing with dealing with environamentalist re hish dock repairs shot the cops who pulled him over for speeding (dont ask for specifics memory is not all that great). I hope they get to kill him before he dies of old age. Classic example of what lots of little things swallowed can lead to.

I guess we have a new definition of law abiding citizen: Cop killer. What an a***ole.

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"Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes."
-R.A. Heinlein
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>It does represent a group of people’s attitudes concerning heavy-handed police tactics.
Apparently Hale had a belly full and was ready to fight.[/quote]

I've never heard Texas DPS being accused of 'heavy-handed tactics'. Matter-of-fact, most people I've talked to consider the TxDPS to one of the less militant versions of State Police.

Unless, of course, you have a verifiable story to prove me wrong.

LawDog
 
Agree with Lawdog on this. Most of the troopers I have come in contact with have been at worst professional, and at best very nice and helpful. I think tha statement should be reworded to say

tired of needless gov. intervention, irritating gov. beurocracy...
 
Skyhawk - I've had DPS troopers stop me and not be very excited about my CHL and even ask if I had come back from the range. I had
some ears on the truck's center counsole.

To kill someone because you have a belly full is absolute BS. The guy deserves everything he gets. I heard him yelling about his constitutional rights. That does us a lot of good.
 
This is a brief report from today's Glock
list, and reply. I hope it will prove
informative.
======Begin quote==========
> Thursday, just south of Austin, a 73 >year-old man, stopped by a State
> Trooper for a seat belt violation placed >one shot from what appears to
> be an AK-74 into the Trooper's head while >being written a ticket. The
> elderly man then proceeded to the Troopers >car and called in and
> reported the shooting on the police radio. >The man said he was tired of
> his civil rights being violated over the >seat belt issue. The Trooper is
> alive though in critical condition.

TN is way ahead of TX. Here Troopers wait until dark on lightly travelled
roads, stop a motorist, kill him in self-defense, sue the dead motorist's estate for pain and suffering inflicted on them by his viciously resisting arrest, and then collect a few hudred grands apiece
as a compensation for the hazards of serving and protecting.
Much more efficient than writing traffic tickets.
========End qiote=================

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LowClassCat
Always willing to calculate my chances
 
"To kill someone because you have a belly full is absolute BS."

Does that go for kicking British out of the US way back when too? Because it is the exact same thing.



[This message has been edited by cuerno de chivo (edited August 04, 2000).]
 
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