Yep, I'd like to see this Chief volunteer to take a 9mm or .45 to a vest and see if it would stop him. Chances are he would go down crying, hoping the "experts" will save his bacon.Charles L. Cotton wrote:Blatant lies like that make my blood boil! He's a gutless coward who's not fit to wear a badge.
Not only is his statement false, it implies that the better practice is to "let the police handle it." That doesn't work anywhere, but apparently it is especially futile in Colorado. At Columbine, not one but two SWAT teams stood in the parking lot for 20 minutes while people were being murdered and students were holding a sign in a window asking someone to help their teacher who was bleeding out. What was their excuse? "We didn't know where the shooter was and were waiting for intelligence." What!? Napoleon had that one figured out 200 years ago when he told his troops to "ride to the sound of the guns." At Aurora, police were already at the scene working crowd control, but apparently made no attempt to enter for the entire 15 minutes Homes was shooting. Waiting for Colorado police is like waiting for Graves Registration.
Wait for the police huh? Yeah right; I hope this guy stays in New Jersey. Don't come to Texas, not even for a visit, not even to watch a ball game and eat a taco.
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Chas.
Also, ever since the release of the audio tapes for the Aurua shooting, I have been a little disappointed in the response of the police. At one point you hear someone saying (paraphrasing), "we need gas masks, we can't go into the theater without gas masks." My thought on hearing that was; people are dying, someone is shooting, put on your big boy panties and get in there and try to stop it. I've been subjected to CS and it sucks, it makes it hard to see, but you can function, "Jaguar, Private E-1 United States Army, 123-45-6789."
Maybe I am being too critical of the police at the scene, but it just struck me wrong when I heard it, and if I'm being too critical then I'm sure someone will set me straight.
