Wednesday, October 4. 2006
Politically Correct? Maybe not, but...
Look, I hate guns. Really. And I know that cops do bad things sometimes, and need to be held accountable.
But I've seen way too much hand-wringing over police excess in this story:
The guy killed a cop who pulled him over for a traffic stop, killed a K-9, shot another cop and shot at others. He'd shown that he was willing to kill. He was hiding out, armed and dangerous, and was near a school.
110 bullets isn't too high a price to pay to make sure he's not going to kill anyone else in that situation. And maybe Sheriff Judd should be a little more careful what he says to reporters, but that quote is going to make him famous, because even people like me say "Thanks, Sheriff, for doing your duty. And you're entitled to a moment of release after 24 hours trying to track down the man who killed one of your deputies."
But I've seen way too much hand-wringing over police excess in this story:
MIAMI - A fugitive gunman accused of killing a Florida sheriff’s deputy was shot 68 times by SWAT team officers who found him hiding in the woods, according to autopsy results.
Police fired 110 shots at Angilo Freeland, 27, the target of a massive manhunt in central Florida following the shooting death of Polk County Sheriff’s Deputy Matt Williams Thursday.
“That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,� Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd told the Orlando Sentinel newspaper.
The guy killed a cop who pulled him over for a traffic stop, killed a K-9, shot another cop and shot at others. He'd shown that he was willing to kill. He was hiding out, armed and dangerous, and was near a school.
110 bullets isn't too high a price to pay to make sure he's not going to kill anyone else in that situation. And maybe Sheriff Judd should be a little more careful what he says to reporters, but that quote is going to make him famous, because even people like me say "Thanks, Sheriff, for doing your duty. And you're entitled to a moment of release after 24 hours trying to track down the man who killed one of your deputies."
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