When is it okay for police to shoot an armed suspect? When that person points his weapon at them or someone else, as in the case in Michigan last week. Police were called to a domestic dispute in Roseville, Michgan on Tuesday where they were confronted by a man with a shotgun. I think the police were remarkably self-restrained when they didn’t kill the guy after he fired … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2011
If you want to kill yourself, just do it already, and leave the rest of us out of it
I mean seriously. If you think your life is so bad that you want to end it, then just kill yourself already. But leave the rest of us out of it, okay? What sparked today’s rant is a case in Detroit, where an [alleged] sex offender got himself a gun, walked into a police station and started shooting cops. Suicide by Cop, they call it. Four Detroit police officers were … [Read more...]
Have Airport Security Morons lost all ability to reason?
Have airport Security morons across the globe lost the ability to think? Or have The Rules become more important than anything... no make that everything else? That's sure what it looks like in Britain these days. They're managing to make North American airport security morons look positively... pedestrian. Julie Lloyd is a Canadian. She was in Britain in 2009 on … [Read more...]