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What’s Wrong With This Picture: Point-Blank Police Shootout Edition

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDkUZtr-8eo

Cover, concealment, shoot and move, don’t turn your back on a suspect, where do you start with this one?

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Robert Farago

Robert Farago is the former publisher of The Truth About Guns (TTAG). He started the site to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns.

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  1. They are also doing what they are told. Since there is pressure to use this as a rally point for political gains, they simply aren’t allowed to stand strong, and commit to protecting themselves.

    Imagine what the president would have to do if the town and victim’s families all declared that they were going to take the appropriate measures and arm themselves. He would have to find another bloody shirt to wave in hopes to knock some of his party’s political opponents out of their positions. And that is his only goal. He wants control of the house in 2014 and that’s why he’s twisting every divisive issue he can muster up.

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  2. There’s another camera angle of the incident which explains the matter.Essentially the cops got shafted by lady luck.

    The shooter gets into his car before the police,unaware of his presence, walk past him to serve their warrant.The second suspect is take into custody and the shooter then picks that moment to ambush the officers,thus triggering the shootout.Being that BMW has tinted windows with a black interior, there’s no way the officers could know there was someone inside until it was too late.

    If that scumbag had any brains he’d have laid low in the car and waited until the five oh left the premesis.Instead his brains were spread onto the sidewalk due to the gunfight he started, and justifiably so.

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    • Well, playing scumbag’s advocate for a moment here, the proper move, if a shootout with the cops was absolutely, completely necessary for whatever reason, was to exit out the other side of the car and use the engine block as cover.

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  3. “Video showing a plastic gun being test-fired appeared online last weekend, prompting Yee’s fears.”…..that his inarticulate, marginally-competent-and-likely-demented ass will be out of a job. And then nobody will run cover for him when he shoplifts suntan lotion or tries to pick up hookers….

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  4. Any medical professional will tell you that a wound never heals if you keep picking at it. That’s what the media, the politicians and the people of Newtown seem unable to realize. As long as they continuing trying to keep this at the forefront of the news, as long as they keep trying to come up with some mythical law that will keep something like this from ever happening again, as long as they keep going into other states (where, incidentally, they don’t work, vote, or pay taxes) trying to influence the political process there, and as long as they keep playing the professional victim and (dare I say it?) enjoying their celebrity, they’ll never heal as a community.

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  5. The one thing I saw was police officer three was fixated on the action. Two officers were already handling the guy, the third officer should have been scanning for other threats. This is all about watching your lane and staying aware of the surroundings, situations change. Other than that, the police officers seemed to handle it well. I guess the guy by the tree had a death wish.

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  6. Yeah I ran into a couple of people collecting signatures in Old Town Alexandria the other day; most of their “talking points” were blatant lies; including that The Aurora and Newtown shooters got their weapons at gun shows without a background check.

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  7. These poor people just want to get on with their lives. Many of them are still searching for an answer to it all, yet they have constantly been poked and prodded in this direction by the media’s propaganda and the political blood dancing. The parents who are still milking every media opportunity they get will probably commemorate some memorial at this new school as “the voices of Newtown” while doing a total disservice to their dead children by using them as propaganda. It will look gaudy and stand as a refusal to move on, all while giving the more vocal parents what they really want, national attention. Oh, and of course, all while blaming the gun.

    I truly feel sorry for the grieving parents and other traumatized citizens who just want to let it go. The only way they can truly move on is by packing their bags, moving far away, and in some cases telling people they’re not from Connecticut. God help the kids who survived the shooting and will attend the new school; the bodies and carnage will always be there for them. They will never completely heal so long as they’re kept in that school system let alone town.

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  8. would think most modern lead pollution was caused by exhaust from lead containing gasoline till the recent lead free period. that affected plants who provided the food for larger animals. where lead content shows up.

    i dont see most game animals foraging for spent lead projectiles.

    waterfowl, will keep a more open mind

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  9. Don’t bother… that caller would never get it anyways. She is convinced that gun control and those additional background checks would work because mainstream media says so. She has not researched the law, she has not researched criminals actions, she hasn’t researched anything. She is a Susie homemaker/soccer mom type that is oblivious to what is actually happening and absorbs only what mainstream news has told her. Your typical low-level informed voter.

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  10. Yeah, we have to go to the back of the bus now. I’m waiting for lawsuits to kick in, that will help them to see the light, Randy

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  11. Holy crap! That’s some funny stuff right there.
    Being in a small town in Orygun, (pop 3000), I’m not used to seeing that.
    Ours has no cage, no glass… They just lock the door after hours.

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  12. “Pro-gun people are seizing on it as proof that guns can’t ever be taken away from people by the government, which is even barmier. Even if you have a whole bunch of actual proper guns, if the feds or the cops decide to take them away, they will do so. The only thing that will slow them down at all is their desire to avoid killing or hurting you in the process: your firepower is not a problem for them, and it really won’t be a problem if all you have is a Liberator or similar.”

    Translation: “Hail to the all-powerful “Feds” and their benevolent mercy. The only reason they don’t take our guns away right now is because they don’t want to risk hurting us.”

    I really wonder what kind of worldview these people have. Do they enjoy being controlled? This author sounds like such a tool.

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    • Yes, McVie’s firepower was no problem at all for the feds, course they did have to replace that broken front window, yep, no problem at all, little wax & it will buff right out, Randy

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  13. Senator Yee who I had the great displeasure of sitting behind during the April 16th committee hearings is one of the reasons I am joining Robert in being a 2A purist. No back ground checks no CCW fees or courses, nada. I will not compromise or buy into having our rights chipped away incrementally over time.
    I have nothing nice to say about the man so I won’t.

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  14. I, for one, actually hope this does not happen…at least not as a group marching together. It only takes one idiot, be it one of the marchers or one of the “official greeting party”, to turn this into a bloodbath. Unlike many of the gun-grabbers, I am not secretly hoping for an atrocity to occur to advance my cause.

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  15. “Even if you have a whole bunch of actual proper guns, if the feds or the cops decide to take them away, they will do so. The only thing that will slow them down at all is their desire to avoid killing or hurting you in the process: your firepower is not a problem for them…”

    Well, at least you know the ultimate agenda in clear language from the Brit media, unlike ours, which likes to pretend it wants to “protect” hunters’ rights while simultaneously quashing everyone’s right.

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  16. Silly man, gun free zones work just fine. Look at the theater in Aurora…umm…or maybe the school in Connecticut…umm…They work damnit! Stop confusing me with facts!

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  17. He didn’t address your question about propaganda, so he stood pat on half-truths. He knows it’s propaganda, and he got that you know it.

    But “gun reform”? The weasel words are becoming more and more obvious. It’s as if they don’t give a rat’s ass anymore how many people figure them out.

    And the tactic of changing sails each time the wind changes? People are increasingly catching on.

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  18. Nick, I think you should stick to your guns (pun intended). Your “review” described a mediocre game, which it is, not one of the worst games ever. Yet you gave it a 1 out of I don’t know what. I played it on the PS3 and I never experienced guns disappearing, jacked up audio or NPCs walking through shit. I’ll give you this, the story is weak and full of the cliched tropes. I swear, the developers have something against anyone that isn’t white. I’d give it a 6/10. Oh, and the multiplayer is pretty fun. If you can tolerate the little kids. But then again, they just be muted.

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