Boomerdog

Wow...looks like Regina George is not a fictional character after all. FWIW: Directly across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., Arlington County is a for lack of a better phrase, a heavily populated "bedroom community," with a lot of small business government contractors etc. It's pretty saturated and parking is a premium. When you see a business post a towing sign warning non-customers that vehicles will be towed, they're not kidding and towing companies (particularly this one) are all too happy to tow violators. The story (so far) is that she parked in a lot owned by a Hunan restaurant (apparently closed) to go across the street to a bar. Perhaps she did not want anyone spotting her car in the Bar's parking lot. Anyway, her car gets towed and the rest is on You Tube.

Bracket the website using the URL GUI and this ought to provide your hyperlink. http://shar.es/1gNtfP It should work now. P.S. Good luck.

Pain is just weakness leaving the body!

"...fired a shot..." The only three words needed to justify the officer's action.

Hmmm...kinda reminds me of one of "Murphy's Laws of Combat: "Killing for peace is like screwing for virginity."

I think there was only one Black Cop involved. The others were White. Regardless of ethnicity they're thugs and bullies with a badge.

Ya think Captain Obvious II? Not only might they be fired...they just might get prosecuted, maybe convicted (but they won't do time but they'll have felony raps to follow them the rest of their lives). And the good citizens of San Bernardino County will have to foot the bill for the settlement from the lawsuit that gets settled. In the meantime, this dirtbag career criminal probably walks when he should be headed for a 3 - 10 stretch in the big house.

Best just to be Canada. You don't want our problems and many of us don't want your gun laws. Nothing personal, it is what it is.

The larger question of which your question is derived is why do private citizens need armor piercing ammunition? It's a fair question. Perhaps one of the possible answers is that armor piercing ammunition being a function of both material composition in the round and an increased charge of powder makes a greater lethal impact upon larger game such as moose, elk, etc. Looking to history, the frontiersman of the late 1700's utilized single shot rifles and preferred the rifled barrel over the smooth barreled musket used by the infantry forces of the day. The rifled barrel of course impaired a lateral spin to the ball as it traversed the barrel once discharged by the powder and as you probably know, the round maintained a more accurate path to the target. The frontiersman were not rich, hunted for their food, so one shot one kill was a real factor in survival. The larger issue to be derived is that in possession of the rifle, the private citizen had a clear technological edge over an infantryman i.e. a member of the military and by legitimate extension, a member of the government. The Continental Army utilized frontiersman as snipers against the British in the American Revolution...the rifled barrel superior performance in hunting now had a direct military application to warfare...a dual use capability.

if you're believing shit from the NYT, I got some swap land in Louisiana I'd love to sell you.

I'd be careful. One of the mysteries of this forum is that ya never know who you're really talking to whether or not they write with one hand tied behind their back 'cause there's just a lot stuff that can't be said. Let's put it this way, all is never what it seems.

I retired at a higher rank than that and apparently it's not obvious or something would have at least been done by now don't ya think?

Uh no...you based the outcome solely upon compliance. Even in a non-compliant scenario which we can agree at least this is, there were other options, i.e. additive independent actions that realistically could result in a different outcome...say for example...a live suspect behind bars (where the deceased more than deserved to be had he been taken alive) rather than on a slab in the morgue. Once again, be careful of determinism...it can exclude other viable options when the situation needs said viable options.

Since (it has been alleged) firefighters are always in heat, perhaps they decided it was time to act out.

Yum...make mine a little extra spicy with cold sauerkraut!

I was enjoying an Easter Sunday breakfast in Gettysburg in a restaurant right across the street from the National Cemetery. So there's a guy and a gal in the next booth and he's talking about his cop days and now that he's retired, he can say "this, that and the other." By his estimates, 3% of the cops nation wide are dirtbags who should not be wearing a badge. Even at 3%, that's not an ignorable number. That "something's gotta give" is more like "something's gonna give" if this crap keeps up. Yea the dirtbags are ruining it for the rest of you but a large part of that solution is in your hands and your fellow cops of like mind. One bad apple in the barrel has an inductive effect which means the rot spreads when nothing is done. This of course means either the good cops are going to band together and do something about this mess to a resolution everyone can live with OR someone is going to come in and make decisions for you of which you and everyone else is not going to like.

OK, I'll admit that much but to use the term embraced and applied to anogher religion no matter the premise creates more confusion in a matter of highly charged debate.

Amazon...Christians don't exercise Sharia Law, that's a Muslim thing.

Here's your answer. The event in totality is the sum total of a series of actions that ends in the shooting death of the suspect. The video records a homicide that is at a minimum very questionable and it's extreme damning of the actions and the judgement of officer...OBTW now charged with murder. Are we to assume therefore that the shooting was inevitable based upon prior events? I'm not buying that one. Such thinking is such a context with fatal implications is determinist as well as down right dangerous. What I can say is that the cop exercised one of several options available and the cop is in a bad place because of the option he chose to exercise.

Answer for what?

Given any level of objective reasoning from the most fundamental to the most complex and nuanced, it is rare, very, very rare to see an added layer of craven stink added to the putrified pile of bullshit of the above quote.

Not much difference from the federal school lunch program Obama's old lady is shoving down the throat of high school students. Simple principle...you accept the money from the government...ya dance to their tune.

I thought the hole in the ground is where the bush is planted.

You get the gold star!

Which Bay Area? Some folks in Maryland call the environs around the Chesapeake "The Bay Area." But I take it you're talking about the San Francisco Bay Area.