Michael wme: speaking of “recruiting” and that U.S. total of 70 gang members joining that jolly band of ISIL (ISIS, IS, whatever), how many tattoos of tears are added to gang members in the U.S., yearly, monthly, weekly, or daily to represent folks they’ve killed to join their peers?? How many kids are killed annually while sitting on their porches, or sleeping in their beds by drive-by shootings, all over the country, not just in much-maligned Chicago?? (Miami IS deadlier btw as far as your odds of getting offed-it’s called “statistics”.)
We’re supposed to fear: Column A; ISIS, Ebola, Al Qaeda, meteors, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, bears, cougars, bats with rabies, wolves, coyotes, mosquitos, Iran, etc, the list of idiot fears is almost endless, but in Column B are; drunk drivers, texting drivers, gang members, pet dogs, bees, and drunken spouses. Those in Column B kill far more Americans, every year, than have ever been killed by those “well known” terrors making up column A.
Are the crazies in ISIS and “Islamic terror groups” a problem? Yes, but those actually hear at home, like just Jeffery Dahmer, Charlie Manson, or dozens of other serial or mass murderers represent a far greater danger.
Oh, right, we’re also now supposed to fear the very cops we hire to CATCH our local crazies and lock them up. Is there reason to get rid of bad cops and bad citizens? Yes, but where lies the line of rational solutions, and thought in America?
OR, just give a 9-year old girl and Uzi, stand back, and get blown away. (and that was her “instructor”!) Even hunter safety is smart enough to wait til the kids are 12, and doesn’t give ’em automatic weapons…
^In Medford, OR last weekend a (white) nut job fired a shotgun at police officers, and was killed in return fire. In Klamath Falls, OR this week a Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the face by a (white) guy, and luckily may live, though still in serious condition during a “routine” car stop. This is by “media standards” small town incidents, smaller than Ferguson, MO, by a long shot….
As noted here, many, many, times, I do NOT support bad cops, but am sick of all the attacks when the vast majority of cops ARE “authoritarian personalities”, it’s why they become cops, but they ARE vastly in number GOOD cops!
Where is the NATIONAL MEDIA and hysteria reporting on these two incidents where BAD GUYS started shooting first? Or reporting the FACT that the vast majority of police officers NEVER fire their weapons in anger in their entire careers??
I do not support the death penalty as “social mandate”, but I DO support legitimate use of force, and if someone shoots at cops, I think they should be booked into the morgue, and save the state some cash (how’s that for “liberal”), likewise large scale hard drug(opiates, meth, cocaine, or prescription drugs like Oxy that can kill) dealers should ingest whatever they have on them at the time of their arrest to “preserve the evidence” and also booked into the morgue, but hey, that’s just “weeping liberal” me.
Sorry, hit submit too soon, but, also almost a dozen Americans have joined ISIS, two killed so far, but OMG! We’re all gonna die! ISIS (ISIL) is gonna’ take over the U.S., so let’s go kill a few hundred thousand more folks who’ve got nothing to do with them!
OmqR-IV.0 over 9 years ago
…here we go, scare the folks silly first.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Michael wme: speaking of “recruiting” and that U.S. total of 70 gang members joining that jolly band of ISIL (ISIS, IS, whatever), how many tattoos of tears are added to gang members in the U.S., yearly, monthly, weekly, or daily to represent folks they’ve killed to join their peers?? How many kids are killed annually while sitting on their porches, or sleeping in their beds by drive-by shootings, all over the country, not just in much-maligned Chicago?? (Miami IS deadlier btw as far as your odds of getting offed-it’s called “statistics”.)
We’re supposed to fear: Column A; ISIS, Ebola, Al Qaeda, meteors, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, bears, cougars, bats with rabies, wolves, coyotes, mosquitos, Iran, etc, the list of idiot fears is almost endless, but in Column B are; drunk drivers, texting drivers, gang members, pet dogs, bees, and drunken spouses. Those in Column B kill far more Americans, every year, than have ever been killed by those “well known” terrors making up column A.
Are the crazies in ISIS and “Islamic terror groups” a problem? Yes, but those actually hear at home, like just Jeffery Dahmer, Charlie Manson, or dozens of other serial or mass murderers represent a far greater danger.
Oh, right, we’re also now supposed to fear the very cops we hire to CATCH our local crazies and lock them up. Is there reason to get rid of bad cops and bad citizens? Yes, but where lies the line of rational solutions, and thought in America?
It’s really getting depressing.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
OR, just give a 9-year old girl and Uzi, stand back, and get blown away. (and that was her “instructor”!) Even hunter safety is smart enough to wait til the kids are 12, and doesn’t give ’em automatic weapons…
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
^In Medford, OR last weekend a (white) nut job fired a shotgun at police officers, and was killed in return fire. In Klamath Falls, OR this week a Sheriff’s deputy was shot in the face by a (white) guy, and luckily may live, though still in serious condition during a “routine” car stop. This is by “media standards” small town incidents, smaller than Ferguson, MO, by a long shot….
As noted here, many, many, times, I do NOT support bad cops, but am sick of all the attacks when the vast majority of cops ARE “authoritarian personalities”, it’s why they become cops, but they ARE vastly in number GOOD cops!
Where is the NATIONAL MEDIA and hysteria reporting on these two incidents where BAD GUYS started shooting first? Or reporting the FACT that the vast majority of police officers NEVER fire their weapons in anger in their entire careers??
I do not support the death penalty as “social mandate”, but I DO support legitimate use of force, and if someone shoots at cops, I think they should be booked into the morgue, and save the state some cash (how’s that for “liberal”), likewise large scale hard drug(opiates, meth, cocaine, or prescription drugs like Oxy that can kill) dealers should ingest whatever they have on them at the time of their arrest to “preserve the evidence” and also booked into the morgue, but hey, that’s just “weeping liberal” me.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Sorry, hit submit too soon, but, also almost a dozen Americans have joined ISIS, two killed so far, but OMG! We’re all gonna die! ISIS (ISIL) is gonna’ take over the U.S., so let’s go kill a few hundred thousand more folks who’ve got nothing to do with them!