Unreasonable

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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