I offer my take on this and stand ready to accept the abuse-and give as good as I get.

The police have a difficult job. So do airline pilots, bakers, and the publicist for George Michael.

The Columbine disaster was police inefficiency run amok. It is not a condemnation of the police as a whole-but strides need to be made in making officers of the law more professional.

Whilst situations arise where the police need to be tough, even brutal, far too often we see the extremes; no action or too much. This an be addressed by weeding out those who desire to express power through abadge and those who have splendid academic credentials but fear their own shadow.

The UK has a splendid corps of people who can defuse situations. Yet, when violence is active they are not so special. A cross between our ability be tough and their abiliy to think might be the best way to go.

WW, The spineless liberals are REALLY in charge.

Jimmy, Thanks! Of course I am.

Fitch is always right!
Well done, sir!!

I agree completely, Fitch.

The police have been bullied into a mentality of worrying about optics and their own asses. Who can blame them when there’s 200 pages of paperwork, an inquiry that more closely resembles a witchhunt and a public just itching to condemn – each and every time a cop pulls his gun?

Is there any question who is REALLY in charge, when a crisis like this occurs?

Usually when I tune in it’s “Modern Marvels”… or UFOs

You saw a historical show on the History Channel? Everytime I tune it in, it’s something about UFOs or Atlantis or Big Foot.

Amen to that brotha!

I’ll tell you who made up the f***ed up policy. A politician. Some idiot who was out to please his constituents by reducing police interference. God knows, they might ‘hurt’ the criminals in the act of saving innocent civilians. It just infuriates me. We need to let cops do their job.

He’s an idiot, and so are the people that believe all of his crap. It just shows that he can just make stuff up, and people will fall for it.

Indeed, Sssteve.

I don’t get the correlation, Von. Who cares where the parents worked? What bearing does that have on anything? Does Mooron mean to imply that the firearms company hands out guns and ammo each week with the paystub, because I don’t find that plausible to any degree whatsoever.