And when it isn’t, then your training is useful…

“They asked, ‘Is there somebody up there who needs rescuing?’ And we said, ‘It’s taken care of,’” Jurgens said.

That’s the way it is supposed to work.

Good on ya boys.

Is that the suspect shot a cop.

So every cop piles onto the chase….

And once a shot is fired, EVERY cop shoots until he locks back on an empty magazine. It has happened before, and it’ll happen again.

Now, a couple of points. A good way to get your innards aired out is to shoot a cop. This pisses the rest of them off. At that juncture, your life expectancy is greatly reduced unless you do everything very right from that point…..

But really, EVERY cop going to the scene at high speeds? How much danger did they put the public in, just so they could get a shot off at a guy who shot a cop? (and lets not even discuss the poor people in the immediate area where they found the guy and his friend., bullets flying everywhere) Or the danger they placed each other in with their own “circular firing squad”

And really, if they left the rest of the area uncovered so they could go to the scene (at high speed)….what good did they do the citizens they are paid to protect (or, are there too many policemen on the street anyway?) if the majority could leave their patrol areas at high speed to get in on the apprehension or killing of a cop killer?

By all reports (even the cops own!) these men were out of control. They weren’t listening to their supervisors….. Yet we give them the power of life and death over regular citizens. Scary, that. Now, I know that police are men and women…human beings. But if they can’t act better than that, are they the right people for the job?

Question: Would they react the same way if it were just an average citizen that had been shot?
You know that answer…

And here I thought the chase scene from the Blues Brothers movie was just parody….

It’d be funny, except the one in Miami was real….

I have been working 65+ hour weeks since the week before the NRA show.

and this is geting in the way of my shooting.  Badly.

Today, while I finally had an hour to spare, I actually sat down for a few minutes after getting the yard and other chores done (my house doesn’t look as if it is in a reposession status….) And promptly fell asleep for the time I had allotted for range time.

Ah, well, there is always tomorow.

Then several people need to be demoted or fired..

Reports are that Valerie Jarrett was the person who gave the military the “Stand Down” order when Benghazi was going all pear shaped.

Now, I don’t know, I wasn’t there. But IF (and again, I haveta say IF) this is true, then the people who accepted that order were in dereliction of duty by taking an order from an unelected civilian not in the chain of command.

Again, I wasn’t there.  I don’t know how the order to Stand Down was transmitted, or who signed it. But if the military folks accepted the command of Valerie Jarrett, then they need to be fired. 

To all those Moms out there.

Mine especially.

The Climate Change Glowbal Warming Climate Disruption crowd. and the “Federal Climate Report”…Calls it a  ” and a “600 Page Litany of Doom” and a “Total distortion of the data and agenda driven, destructive episode of bad science gone beserk”

I gotta say, my bet is on Mr. Coleman.

How when someone is called out for their behavior or for their failings, if they are a member of a minority group, they immediately cry “discrimination!” rather than address the issues. Invariably, they use the fact that they are different as an excuse, and become victims.

Especially if they can use this to change the subject away from their bad behavior.

Instead of being big boys/girls and dealing with their issues.

Sad, really.

ETA:
I am reminded (again) to “never to argue with an idiot….they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”


Samuel L Clemens

I am also reminded that stereotypes exist for a reason.

So the FBI is “investigating” the supposed incidents of the Bundy supporters pointing firearms at the Clark County Sheriff and other policemen.

Now, this might have happened. Then again, a lot of policemen get upset whenever they aren’t the only people with firearms. Most police don’t like it when mere civilians have guns…especially when  they outnumber the police. It makes them worried when they don’t have a monopoly on force….(and yes, I know a lot of good cops who aren’t that way, but a significant majority of police ARE that way).

Seems to me that if they had video of the actual “pointing of guns at officers” then that would be one thing. But I didn’t see any of that video, and I have watched just about all of the video that I can find on the “standoff”. I did see a LOT of BLM contractors with M-4 look alikes holding them in a very operational manner, and I did see one still shot and a few frames f video where a supposed Bundy supporter has a longarm pointed in the general direction of the BLM contractors (albeit about 400 yards away)….I didn’t see anyone pointing a gun of any kind in a threatening manner. Maybe you did…if so, please send me a link fr the picture or video.

Most of the video and photos I have seen are of people standing around with their firearms (both sides) ready for use but not pointed at anyone. Which is really how it should be. I would take anyone pointing a firearm at me as a hostile act, and I would expect that anyone I point a firearm at to do the same. It is NEVER ok to point a firearm at anyone you don’t wish dead….When cops do it, it is often excused, but if a civilian does it, not so much….

Having said that, I really think that this was the first time that a group of cops couldn’t intimidate the people in a crowd….and it frightened them…a lot. They want to know who these people were who are willing to stand up to police.

YMMV

ETA: I have heard that the “snipers” that were working for the BLM were surveilling the crowd with their scopes on the rifles, and others in the Bundy side took exception to that practice and returned the favor. This is all rumor, and unprovable. I wasn’t there, so I can’t comment more than this.

Via Way Up North, we have an interesting tale.

Go read it for yourself.

Me? In the absence of a “stolen gun” police report, I’d convict the shop owner. The way I see it, he sold the gun.

What say you?

Seems that Mike Rowe, of Dirty Jobs fame is giving away full boat free ride scholarships….A million dollars worth.

And he can’t give it away.

Know some young person who would like to be a mechanic? Send them his way.