More shootings.

[Brakeman]

http://apnews.excite.com/article/2012122...B6L04.html

HOUSTON (AP) - A Houston traffic stop ended with a gunman shooting and killing a police officer and a bystander on Christmas Eve in the parking lot of a body shop, police said.

"The saddest thing is that the officer, who is deceased, didn't have the opportunity to pull his weapon and defend himself," Cannon said. "It happened that fast."

Maybe the cop wasn't "trained" well enough?

Wonder what his family thinks of the second fucking amendment this morning?

Speaking skeptically, how did the Police spokesman know whether he didn't have the opportunity to draw? From the story the policeman and the suspect argued for a number of minutes. The suspect's weapon must have been concealed at that time. Otherwise the officer would have been arguing with an armed intruder without drawing his own weapon.. a training no - no. The officer's training would be to first assess whether the suspect was armed so, if the officer was not lax, then the weapon was well hid. Then the officer would have had to have broken visual contact with the man's hands to allow him to dig for his guns, another training no - no.
Otherwise a perp would have had to outdraw a cop from a concealed position over an open hip holster, something training should not have allowed.
In contrast to you, I would think that his lack of attention to his training is exactly what got him killed, even without seeing the video, if it exists.

More to the point though, it is a terrible situation that there are so many guns in the hands of so many criminals, such that in a moment of human failure, a cop does not lose his life, and a bystander coming to the aid of the cop is not also killed.

Frankly, why is a man without empathy, a psychopath, walking our streets? We need to kill these people like rabid dogs, socially speaking. But we won't. What is the cause for the "rabies" of men becoming psychopaths?