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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:51 PM Original message |
When did it become OK to shoot someone who MIGHT have a gun |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
1. Invalid argument |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Actually, it is a very valid argument. |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Yep. And he specifically wanted to target the jet ramp ... |
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SmokingJacket (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:59 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. What if they had one of these? |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
15. Pre-emptive attack just like Bush* |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. Not really |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:14 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. After they've stated that they have a bomb in there |
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Thorandmjolnir (390 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:19 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. But the scenario by the OP does not include that statement! |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 08:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
46. Are you privy to some sort of information WE don't know? |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:18 PM Response to Reply #17 |
25. You're taking it out of context. Now take this scenario: |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:24 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. I'd make him look like Barbara Bush in that picture |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 04:18 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. LOL! |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. the same time it became ok to torture someone |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
20. Please use the correct terminology |
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NYC Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
28. Let's say you were charged with protecting lives, as an air marshal. |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
3. At the same time it became okay to imprison people without |
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tx_dem41 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. Shouldn't your title read "bomb" instead of "gun"? |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 05:18 PM Response to Reply #4 |
42. I should have said 'weapon' |
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LaurenG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
5. Unless we were there how could we possibly know? nt |
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The Stranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Even more the reason not to shoot people before imminent threat. |
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wixomblues (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 02:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
10. By that logic, |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:00 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. shit stinks whether you are there to smell it or not |
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NVMojo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. their security policy is FUBAR, shoot to kill no matter what! |
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sojourner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. neh....Paris, Courtney et al can get away with whatever they want |
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xxqqqzme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
13. pre-emptive murder |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
27. No, but it sure makes a quick rich widow. |
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wixomblues (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
14. Bomb or Gun, you're being to clinical in your analysis. |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 05:40 PM Response to Reply #14 |
43. I was trying to be clinical |
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wixomblues (372 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 08:20 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. I'm not arguing about the needs of the many.... |
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burythehatchet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
18. Don't ya know, 9/11 changed everything. |
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renate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
19. this was a tragedy, but in fairness, |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. "off his meds"!!! and she was traveling with him? |
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TallahasseeGrannie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
22. I've been thinking about this all day |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
24. for those who think the wife should have FORCED him to take his meds: |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Then you don't take him on a plane. |
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blueatheart (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:32 PM Response to Reply #29 |
32. she was his wife not his mother n/t |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 04:17 PM Response to Reply #29 |
38. now you think the wife PLANNED this???!?? |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 03:47 AM Response to Reply #38 |
49. had he been under care, he wouldn't have been shot. |
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unblock (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-10-05 11:19 AM Response to Reply #49 |
57. well, we don't know the run up to the situation, but |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:30 PM Response to Original message |
31. On what bothers you the most. |
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harlinchi (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
33. It always has been, if he is Black! |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
34. Are their orders "shoot to kill" or "shoot to disable"? |
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Silverhair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:44 AM Response to Reply #34 |
55. Shoot for center mass - always. NT |
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cantstandbush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
35. Authorities have been doing that to blacks in this country for centuries. |
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sinkingfeeling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:52 PM Response to Original message |
36. Anybody can do it in Florida! |
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stray cat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
37. Extremists on both sides are throwing accusations |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 04:59 PM Response to Original message |
40. I should have said might have a weapon |
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texpatriot2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
41. Good question nm |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
44. America is getting too trigger happy... |
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Texasgal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 08:26 PM Response to Reply #44 |
47. OH yeah... |
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chat_noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-08-05 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
48. Passenger: Alpizar Was Agitated at Gate |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 03:58 AM Response to Original message |
50. When it became OK to attack a country who might someday |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 04:52 AM Response to Original message |
51. Amadou Diallo? |
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Tactical Progressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:37 AM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Yes, that was the reference |
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davekriss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 06:08 PM Response to Reply #52 |
56. And look where that mentality leads |
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obreaslan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
53. Cheney said that he bought yellow-cake uranium from Niger.... |
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Silverhair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-09-05 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
54. Been that way a LONG time. |
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