It is about gun violence. (Click here)
Here is a synopsis of the story.
A crazy gun nut joins the Army. Goes to Iraq, gets in trouble with the Army, comes home, has PTSD, hangs out with crazy gun nuts, gets in a gun fight, runs to the mountains, shoots a park ranger, SWAT teams are called, everyone in the huge park is rounded up and subjected to weird paramilitary stuff even though the guy is miles away in chest deep snow-in a t-shirt and tennis shoes, the ranger dies because the SWAT team won't go near the shooter (I bet you money), the guy dies from exposure less than a mile from the scene, and it is made into an issue about guns being allowed in National Parks.
There is a whole list of problem issues here and the only issue brought up is one which has no bearing on the case at all. The issue of guns in National Parks. Which is a stupid issue. Parks are so huge that you don't even know when you cross the border. People have been prosecuted for hunting one foot over the line. (look it up)
But, I digress.
I probably shouldn't have used a gun issue because it is such a hot topic but this story is such a perfect example of the stupidity that is the USA.
Look at it this way,
Crazy person gets involved with government agency, crazy person gets worse, crazy person does not get treatment even though it becomes more and more obvious he is crazy. Crazy person does something stupid and illegal and dangerous, Crazy person makes a code violation.
There is a chase, people die.
The discussion is not about mental health, police response to a crisis, the waste of money on SWAT teams, if everyone in the visitor's center should have been made to kneel with their hands behind their head when the threat was miles down the road, no the discussion is about guns in the park.
Like it would have stopped him...
It was a field day of Law Enforcement. (Click here, Taylor said there was a plan at some point yesterday to use an armored vehicle to evacuate people, but authorities instead let visitors drive their own cars under escort.) Oh, my! Well, better safe than sorry I say!
I can't find the first story I read which talked about the kneel on the ground with your hands behind your head treatment of people at the visitor's center.
Kind of ironic perhaps that with all the screwing around and panic and SWAT teams and technology and emergency drills that the guy died of exposure.
There will be countless studies and training adjustments and stupid regulations and self-congratulations and you can bet that everything they learn will be wrong.
Probably could have been resolved in two hours 40 years ago and would have only involved a couple park rangers with .30-.30's.
Just makes you tired...
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I can see why you are not running for office. You are going to need to do something about this thinking, considering facts and using logic. If the progressives cannot fill us with fear over every little thing and convince us that only Big Brother can save us, how are they going to get us to give up the liberty we have left?
ReplyDeleteI also think that a few citizens carrying could have taken care of the guy.
Grace and peace.
Because when the guy on the shooting rampage drives up to the checkpoint in that situation, he will of course hand over his gun before entering the park, and wouldn't dream of shooting the officer at the checkpoint.
ReplyDeleteThis could all be solved so easily by simply outlawing insanity!
ReplyDeleteThis is why I would never enter a national park with out a concealed weapon.
ReplyDeleteLeft Bank, well of course!
ReplyDeleteGorges, Instead of turning people with serious problems out on the street to live under a bridge and locking up people who just want to be left alone?
Muddy, if you were a bit more of a cartoon character you could always DROP A SAFE on them! (Get it, a safe?!!!!)
I wonder if the title to this post should be, "Tire Chain bandit shoots officer" that was what this whole incident was about. He didn't stop with his 4wd SUV and put on his chains, so they chased him down, for what? To give him a good lecture? If you don't put on your tire chains in a National Park are they going to shoot you? Absolutely amazing!
Better safe than sorry Budde!
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