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Old September 3, 2001, 09:22 AM   #34
Coronach
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The thing I love about Monday Morning Quarterbacking is that no matter what goes wrong, you can see what it is and you're RIGHT! Its fun! You can do it too!

Lets say he had responded to the door and they tried to tackle him and he had managed to get free and get back inside- my God, those heavy handed police tactics CAUSED a barricade situation. Damn them!

Or, if he had responded to the door as many of us would do (armed), the LEOs refused to treat him like a gentleman and state their case before trying to latching onto him, what a bunch of jack booted thugs! He was defending himself when he shot them! Damn those SWAT Gestapos!

Or, even better, if they try to nab him in public and it goes south and he leads the cops on a car chase that ends abruptly in the middle of a school bus, they were needlessly pursuing this felon, placing us all at risk! Damn those over-zealous asses!

Or maybe he'd be carrying concealed (hey! It happens!). It could start a shootout...in public! How dare they try to arrest an armed felon at the grocery store! Thats DANGEROUS! Damn those arrogant socialist pigs!

No-knock warrant then? Well, I think we just trod down that road a week ago. You can just cut-and-paste your previous objections here: ____________________________________________________
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__________________! Damn those Nazis!

Good work. See? You too can Monday morning QB with the best of them!

Mike

PS Here is a radical idea. I call it 'personal responsibility.' The 'heavy handed' actions of LEOs do not cause suspects to hole up and shoot people. The desire of the suspects to hole up and shoot people when confronted ultimately leads to the compression of the trigger. Just a thought.

(Edited to fix the Scrolling Screen of Death--Don Gwinn)
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