[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Two peas in a pod.

vegetable racism

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

vegetable racism

Great banter

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Scrooge

vegetable racism

[Ammi]

..I don't understand the association with any other case here/there is no association..with this they were good police officers who did a good job...they didn't shoot him within seconds of arriving without giving him a chance to drop his weapon like the Tamir Rice case...they didn't shoot him when he was unarmed/wounded and too much of a distance away from anyone to be any threat to them...police officers do, do a difficult and dangerous job and there are many, many very good police officers but that doesn't mean that every police officer is good, that every police officer does a good job or that there are no police officers who abuse their position or are not guilty of racial or any other prejudiced profiling ...because if that was the case, then it would be the only profession in the world where there was no 'bad' in it...it's all individual cases and not the police force as a whole...and to ignore that and dismiss it because they have a dangerous job to do so whatever they do is ok and justified, whatever the circumstances of the incidents just seems a really odd way of looking at it...

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..I don't understand the association with any other case here/there is no association..with this they were good police officers who did a good job...they didn't shoot him within seconds of arriving without giving him a chance to drop his weapon like the Tamir Rice case...they didn't shoot him when he was unarmed/wounded and too much of a distance away from anyone to be any threat to them...police officers do, do a difficult and dangerous job and there are many, many very good police officers but that doesn't mean that every police officer is good, that every police officer does a good job or that there are no police officers who abuse their position or are not guilty of racial or any other prejudiced profiling ...because if that was the case, then it would be the only profession in the world where there was no 'bad' in it...it's all individual cases and not the police force as a whole...

Well said Ammi.

[Kizzy]

I still find it hard to believe that even in this instance shoot to kill and not to disarm is acceptable.

[Livia]

Until the USA look seriously at their Right to Bear Arms, the police have to be free to shoot to kill. It's no good sitting in the UK thinking things are the same there. They are not.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

Until the USA look seriously at their Right to Bear Arms, the police have to be free to shoot to kill. It's no good sitting in the UK thinking things are the same there. They are not.

I can never hear that phrase without thinking of this

Spoiler:

[Livia]

Hahahaaaaaaaaa.... excellent.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

I can never hear that phrase without thinking of this

Spoiler:

[GiRTh]

The 2nd amendment also talks of a 'well regulated militia'. Ask any NRA nutcase and they will tell you the amendment exists so they can protect themselves against the state as well as other civilians. Here is crazy Alex Jones telling Piers Morgan.

Youtube video

[Livia]

Frankly, the NRA are a bloody disgrace.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Livia

Frankly, the NRA are a bloody disgrace.

Totally agree.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Totally agree.

Ditto.

[LeatherTrumpet]

if I lived out in say Wyoming miles from anywhere I would have myself a big gun but if I were in Seinfeld's apartment in NYC I would probably not have a gun.

If I lived out in Boulder Colorado I would have a gun but if I were in San Francisco I would not have a gun.