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S. Carolina shooting

mikeyb

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...orderly-conduct-in-2014/ar-BBNV2QG?li=BBnb7Kz

7 officers shot, 1 killed, trying to serve a warrant. Shooter was a disbarred lawyer who served in Vietnam.

Media is already shaping minds for the continued stripping of rights and jackboot thuggery as the right thing to do.

Some curious quotes because you never know when the article will get "cleaned up," if at all. Sarcastic comments included.

A police officer was killed and six of his comrades were wounded when a man began shooting at deputies who came to serve a search warrant,
Do we really use this word for co-workers? When we're not drinking vodka?

"Officers went there unknowing the firepower the suspect had," Florence County Sheriff Kenney Boone said at a news conference.
It'd be really great, you know, if we had some sort of list of firearms that people had. Not a registry, but just a list of guns that people, like this disbarred lawyer, had in their possession.

Boone credited his department's military equipment for enabling them to pull the wounded from the field of fire.

"Thanks to our MRAP, armored personnel carrier, we made sure all the officers that were shot were protected and brought for medical atttention," he said.
Keep giving us the military-grade equipment so we can eventually quell any natural rebellion that might arise from living in a hostile, if not tyrannical place.

And let the record show that antis will still be proclaiming that guns should only be owned by current or former police and military personnel. Because they're trained. :banghead:
 

solus

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Interestingly the alledged 74 yo shooter wasn’t the individual listed on the warrant?

The truly sad part, as in the majority of mass shooting(s), ‘the rest of the story’ will be withheld & court sealed, thus creating the urban myths of the locale as the detail will never be fully disclosed as to whom truly instigated what & when.

Let the story telling begin...
 

since9

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1. Yes, the term "comrades" has become a normal part of the American-English language, even when you're not drinking vodka, as has agitprop, czar, mammoth, parka, politburo, vodka, and yurt. Similarly, if you are Russian, but you speak English often or most of the time, it just seems easier to express your thoughts using an English word instead of looking for the word with a similar meaning in Russian. For example, sometimes you will hear in Russian:

Таргет = target
Паб = pub
Тренинг = training
Пассворд = password
Уикенд = weekend
Кул = cool

2. When approaching anyone known to be armed, assume the worst. Well, within reason. Most people won't have access to the FGM-148 Javelin, BGM-71 TOW, or the AGM-114 Hellfire. And by "most people" I mean you can safely assume you're not going to encounter them on the streets. But you can and should assume they have access to semi-automatic shotguns loaded with armor-piercing slugs, high-powered rifles, and improvised weapons/explosives.

Responding requires rock-solid cover.

From what I understand, the response team finally managed to get him to give himself up through a negotiator.
 
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