A TTAG commentator writes:
According to boston.cbslocal.com, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev walked up to the MIT officer’s car and shot him in the head, unprovoked. It appears to be an assassination. But why? How did that fit into their plan? The operating theory: they were short one gun. The older brother had a gun. They wanted to get a gun for the younger brother. The fastest and most efficient way they could think of doing it was a surprise attack on a cop, to take his weapon and go. Officer Collier had a retention holster; it’s like a three-way lock. If you don’t know how to remove the gun, you’re not going to get it out. There was apparently an attempt to yank it. The Tsarnaevs couldn’t get it and left. Regardless, this is exactly what will keep happening if any sort of real clamp-down occurs on buying guns: bad guys will simply kill to acquire them.
My lame ass NC senators should take a few notes from her.
I agree with the sentiment that bad guys will find ways to get guns. This is an extreme example. Don’t know that many scumbags are as bold as to sneak attack a cop and try and take his gun though. Still, it did happen…
This article exposes the main reason why open carry advocates should reconsider their position and work towards consealed carry.
Not necessarily. The main reason an “open carrier” can be targeted for his weapon is that here are so few people doing it. A criminal is not likely to “target an open carrier” for their weapon if there are a multitude of open carriers around. In this particular incident the officer was alone. Had there been other openly armed individuals around (either law enforcement or otherwise) then the odds are that they would not have attacked him.
Note that the criminal who would target a lone open carrier (for their weapon or otherwise) is the same person who would target a lone police officer.
If you choose to open carry you must be as vigilant or more so than the average law enforcement officer.
Correction-DUMB bad guys will risk their hide to steal an officers gun.
Smart bad guys find a broke police property clerk,and bring them a large suitcase of money.
If the smart bad guy is particularly poor, just break into the police armory.
Either way, the scumbags will always be armed.Theyll just target the police for straw sales when the laws on civil ownership become oppressive.
This from a government defense contracting company. Hmmm.
I never liked GE Cap anyhow. Interest rates were too darn high. Service lousy.
Situational awarness.
At all times.
Always.
Your senators do not need notes. You and your crew need to vote.
Good thing MA doesn’t let citizens carry or else they might waive randomly murdered citizens on the street…oh, wait
If Michael Chiklis went metro-vegan . . .
Walk quietly, carry a stick, let no one see stick until legally used.
One thing I was truly hoping for is when the terrorist were on the run if they had broke into some NRA instructors home for refuge and ended up on the business end of their training aids.
If the civilian populace is unarmed it will take hundreds of armed police just like in Boston to keep us safe. Or it will be like England where home invasions and violent crimes are actually higher AND we are still all paying 60% income tax to pay for our army of police and of course Obamacare
sorry to go off subject a little…
This was obviously amature hour, had these terrorist wanna be’s been thinking they would have just cut the officers belt and taken the gun with them…but I digress this does prove the point criminals will always find a way to get a gun.
Of course no one seems willing to consider that there is one size that fits all. You can kinda stumble upon it by concentrating for a brief time on the phrase, “…shall not be infringed.”
Here’s an article (from CNN unbelievably) that could be used to further this point. In South Africa there was a HUGE gun culture, then they went straight ban. Long story short most home invasions aren’t for theft of valuables, but for guns.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/23/world/africa/south-africa-gun-violence
Its pretty hard to get through to those in la la land. Hopefully the bradys will come up with an “I’m disarmed & proud of it sign to display on their shirts”, that should thin the ranks some. I think we just have to wait em out, there’s less of them every day,lol, Randy
PLEASE CANCEL ALL E- MAILS TO ME ,GEO
but on the other hand, do we want NY Senators listening to their constituants?
No, we want them to think, and memorize the 2A.
We don’t want low knowledge voters sitting in congress.
Has anyone actually shot one of these things? I handled one the other day, did not care for the trigger that much and saw that it is made in Turkey (I believe) so it made me naturally skittish.
This is unwelcome news indeed for the grabbers; I suspect it’s right around now that the call for a new, more horrific school shooting goes out.
Man these are fun to read…
Let’s start a pool: How many minutes into the program will it be before an M16 is shown firing full auto?
I say 5.
Isn’t “accountability” for these pets already provided by the civil and criminal justice systems?
assault dogs! really! i know they call them “aggressive breeds” but basically the same thing. civilian disarmament in the for of pet control.
I’m watching a Rerun now.
$60 pmags, hilarious.