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The USA is a bad place to be a copper (perhaps NSFW)
Copper having a friendly chat and a guy opens up with a semi-automatic. Guy ends up very dead.
Bloke kills two coppers and then shouts "I'm done" and gives up when he himself is shot.
Bloke just opens fire when stopped.
What is notable is that many of the gun toting nutters are bad shots. Watch a few of these police dash cam videos and you see that the nutters often blaze away and do nothing but make holes in the scenery. The guy in the second clip obviously had some idea how to aim as he killed two police officers, but the first and last nutters appear to have missed with every shot.
Anyway, the US is a scary place where any discussion can become a fire fight in a split second.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
16th Sep 2021 9:17 am
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“Because evil can’t be dead enough”Its not the height of the fall but the sudden stop at the bottom that hurts!!
16th Sep 2021 10:49 am
RRSTDV8
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Yeah, that was a bizarre thing to say in a press conference. But that's the USA for you.
The guy emptied the entire clip in to the baddie because he was scared poo-less and running on 100% adrenaline by that point. But hey, why bother about reality?Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
16th Sep 2021 11:57 am
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Yeh, and they will only be safe when everybody has a gun 😳😉👍
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16th Sep 2021 3:28 pm
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But those that do advocate for unfettered gun ownership aren't really very good at reasoning. Because if they were, they wouldn't need a gun to settle an argument.I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
16th Sep 2021 4:18 pm
kajtzu
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But those that do advocate for unfettered gun ownership aren't really very good at reasoning. Because if they were, they wouldn't need a gun to settle an argument.
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The United States was built on a shared set of values and principles, with a focus on protecting and preserving inalienable human rights to life and liberty.
Er, no, it was founded on a shared belief that money should stay in their pockets. And because no one wanted to pay nasty taxes to fund an army, they did the whole "everyone needs a gun to be in the militia" thing. And today, Yanks are still claiming that right as being inalienable even though it is an amendment (and thus amendable) and they are the largest military power in human history to date.
A bit like the conservative right that insists that the US was founded as Christian country, even though it absolutely wasn't.
But hey, that's Yanks for you.Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
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2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
16th Sep 2021 7:12 pm
flydive
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Re: The USA is a bad place to be a copper (perhaps NSFW)
RRSTDV8 wrote:
What is notable is that many of the gun toting nutters are bad shots. Watch a few of these police dash cam videos and you see that the nutters often blaze away and do nothing but make holes in the scenery.
Most cops not much better.
RRSTDV8 wrote:
The guy emptied the entire clip in to the baddie because he was scared poo-less and running on 100% adrenaline by that point.
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