Racism much? Or should that be harassment much? It’s hard to tell. The mainstream media hasn’t reported on the raid on P. Diddy’s Maybach. tmz.com tells us “Diddy had just been dropped off at the Soho House … an ultra-exclusive, private club in West Hollywood. Diddy’s bodyguard and another person drove Diddy’s $500,000 Maybach away from Soho, but they didn’t get far. We’re told someone called 911 and said someone inside the Maybach had a gun. At least 9 squad cars roared to the scene. Cops pulled their guns and ordered the occupants of the Maybach out of the car and made them lie prone on the ground, until they discovered there weren’t any guns. The street was closed down temporarily until deputies gave the all-clear.” perezhilton.com calls it a “vicious prank.” I call it a lawsuit waiting to happen (at best) or a police state take down (at worst).
A gun is reported to be inside a half a million dollar car. What probable cause was there to believe that a crime had been committed? Did the police think that the car would be used in a drive-by in a ritzy Hollywood neighborhood? It is this idiotic level of over-response that lead to the open carry ban. Yet you can’t get the cops to respond to a DV call in Dallas…Does any thought at all go into the distribution of resources?
Makes me wonder what other information was in the call that didn’t get relayed to the media. ‘A gun is somewhere in the car’ is way different and gets a different response than ‘Someone in the car pointed a gun at me,’ or ‘I think someone is stealing a car, and they also have a gun.’
Of course, media being what it is, we may never know. And I can’t rule out the possibility that it was an honest overreaction, either. I just wonder because I have gone to dozens of calls that sounded like some kind of violent felony crime in progress, that turned out to be people either making foolish assumptions or flat out lying, with no crime actually having occurred.
Not defending the cops here, but just to play devil’s advocate…
If the report was that a white celeb’s $500k car had just been stolen at gunpoint by two black men, isn’t this about the response one might expect?
The way to stop this nonsense in its tracks is to inform Tierney that until 100% of federal, state and local law enforcment is willing to mandate it on ALL of their own firearms, the idea is off the table.
Period.
Fortunately, not being Asian women saved these dudes and the nearby structures hundreds of bullets.
The rifle fired itself.
The husband will be arrested and arraigned, will probably be accused of manslaughter and released on bail.
Give it 24 hours.
And another: guns and booze don’t mix.
musta’ been one of those democratic liberal guns, or maybe somebody was drunk and pissed and was going to show that SOB …….
And this is why my black ass doesn’t open carry. Large swaths of the American population are still not ready to embrace the concept of LAW-ABIDING black males (such a thing does exist) openly and enthusiastically exercising their 2A rights. I would guess virtually 100% percent of police DEFINITELY aren’t. I don’t want to be SWATed or killed for simply being a BMWAG. So I conceal carry only.
While I agree that laws like the NY “Safe” Law abridge our rights and freedoms—and not just those of us who own guns but all citizens—I have to say that, whenever I see the phrase “slave state” used to describe this situation, it makes me very uncomfortable. I understand that making me and everyone else uncomfortable about this encroachment on liberty is precisely the point. But to use a term that implies any meaningful similarity between the lives of black slaves living in the real slave states to the lives of citizens living in New York or Maryland—the rhetorical “slave states”—is to lose all sense of proportion. To be affronted by the appropriation of the term “slave states” as as rhetorical device is not political correctness; it is respect for our history and for moral balance. I think RF knows this. That’s why he’s addressed this topic twice already.
Jesus. 5.56 point-blank to the head.
I doubt dental records would help after a shot like that to prove who she was.
Kalifornia dreamers-forever a new nightmare for the legitimate legal gun owner. I suddenly think “Auld lang syne”. Befitting as the good old days are long gone.
When someone makes a good pajama carry holster let me know.
Terrible tragedy. Condolences to the family…
sir for henry to reproduce this 1860 classic rifle would be like colt reproduceing the 1894 colt bisley flat top target mod these are two very sought after firearms with the henry rifle being the most expensi pay two grand for it now and a few years down the road sell it for double that or more this is a good investment gun so buy one if you can for me iam gonna buy two
The really sad part, the part that makes one wonder why even fight this, is that the majority of voters in Maryland(and other true blue states) probably support this. Or, they won’t hate it enough to oust the democrats who enacted this nonsense.