Alright so it’s that time of the
month again, I’ve seen just about enough material in the news to give me a bit
to talk about. Though I’m not sure how well my thoughts are going to flow onto
the pages it was a bit of a long night last night. After working my normal 6:30
to 5:30 job I went in to the Precinct office for a little paper work to help my
Corporal out. He is charged with gathering all the statistical hours for each
reserve in my department which there are about 16. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t
mind helping him out at all, in-fact I think I’m fairly well suited for the job
of gathering this data. It’s extremely tedious. First you have to separate each
Deputy out and view their reports month by month. This wouldn’t be a huge deal
but you have to look at the total hours for each day then add up each month, transfer
the data into a simple spread sheet. Nothing hard about any of it just tedious,
it took me 3 hours to do 8 months last night. Luckily for me that got all of 2012 done till
next month and I can actually keep up with it month to month at this point. Any
who, that’s my excuse for this month’s post, I’m sure I’ll have a new one for
next month.
First topic, New York, New York the
place so nice they named it twice. So we have two cops, chasing a murderer down
a busy street. Then said murderer turns and points a hand gun at the two
officers. First things first, I refuse to Monday morning quarter back these two
officers. Second these guys are going to
get crucified in the media as it is. I mean it’s already started one gentleman
journalist, and I use the term loosely, has called for more gun control. He has
also made statements saying “the predictable response for many reads was that
it was the cops’ fault, guns were not the problem.” No you’re incorrect; the
person who marched into an office building and killed his ex-co-worker is the
problem. I feel for those two officers whose lives were threatened and took
what they saw to be the necessary steps in split seconds, and now have to deal
with the repercussions of their actions. Officers, good luck, and I’m very
sorry your hand was forced, and ended with such a horrific cost.
As far as comparing us to the
United Kingdom, please wake up. You’re comparing apples to oranges. I can throw
out a million reasons why getting rid of all guns in the U.S. won’t work, but
it’s a waste of key strokes. But I will comment on the “cowboy” culture, and
the “spread of heavy duty weapons like the AR-15 semi-automatic rifles make our
society a dangerous place”. First, I
want to say this person has never been in a situation where his life or family
is threatened. Sir, when you have someone breaks into your home in the middle
of the night how long do you really think it’s going to take the police to get
there? No sir, guns are not our problem. Our diseased society is a problem. In fact in law enforcement we have something
called the 21 foot rule, this rule tells us that someone with a knife can exert
lethal force on you or someone else before you can draw your weapon and neutralize
the threat. I don’t know about you but I don’t have many places in my home that
I have more that are much more than 21 feet. I mean if I back up against a wall
and someone stands against the adjacent wall maybe. Though I have to think of
the fact that these people don’t know the darker side of people, they pluck a
morsel of news from the week or month, and write their point of view, and
honestly how can I argue with that? Well mostly I just say to you “Yes it would
be a great world where there were no guns, used to kill people.” But I follow
that up with, and please excuse the foul language “Good fucking luck.” Please
grow up, and realize that the U.K. has gun violence also, and you will never be
able to pluck firearms from American Citizens. It’s unrealistic to even expect
that. I suggest you widen you view, and honestly look at the base causes. Do
people with guns commit crimes? Yes. Do people without guns commit crimes?
Yes. Have people used guns to stop
crimes? Yes. Have people without guns stopped crimes? Yes. What exactly do you
see in all these previous questions? PEOPLE! But being the realist I am, I
realize that you will never fix all people, and you will never pluck guns out
of the US, and tighter gun control will one end the violence, only some people’s
ability to defend themselves.
Second topic of discussion, how in
the world can you ban a finger gun? Some school in Nebraska has taken its
Weapons in school policy a bit far. In fact I think this is a large portion of
the problem we have as a whole. We want to dictate what people do over
educating. What I mean by this is they want to dictate that this young deaf
child not sign his name, so that they don’t have to educate the rest of the
school on the fact that the child is using sign language, not a finger gun. No
more cowboys and Indians folx. We are entirely too lazy to teach people,
instead we would rather reinforce the entitled attitude. There is no reason to
cause these sorts of issues. This child isn’t going out of his way to be offensive. In fact he’s learned a skill that few learn,
he’s learned it out of necessity. This is like telling someone they can no
longer pronounce the letter “H” the same way because someone may mistake it for
being told they are going to be hit. What exactly is wrong with us when we will
allow such behavior by the administration of a school? This doesn’t even sound
anywhere close to reasonable adult behavior to me.
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