I find it funny that we can have armed guards in our banks, malls, sporting events and grocery stores to protect our money, clothing, shoes, and professional athletes, but the concept of doing the same to protect the most valuable things in our lives, our children, is somehow distasteful.
Good guys with guns are still the best defense against bad guys with guns.
....until that "Good Guy With a Gun" runs into 60-80 police converge in tanks and body armor.
Yesterday, A SWAT team in Wisconsin killed an escaping hostage:
The man shot and killed by police Saturday after an hourslong hostage standoff at a Neenah motorcycle shop was one of the shop's owners. Milwaukee lawyer Cole White identified the co-owner as Michael Funk, who White said was shot as he tried to flee from the gunman inside his store.http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/man-killed-by-police-in-neenah-hostage-standoff-was-shop-co-owner-lawyer-says-b99629225z1-360721161.htmlPolice say one man ran out of the building with a weapon in his hand. Wilkinson says that man isn't the suspected gunman. He, however, failed to drop his weapons when officers ordered him to.
"And he was subsequently shot at by one or more officers on scene. We do not know if he was also shot at by the subject inside the building," Wilkinson said.http://whbl.com/news/articles/2015/dec/05/neenah-police-arrest-one-person-after-hostage-standoff/Oh and here's how "orders to drop the gun" apparently go when cops dont know there is video:
Police officers in the Tamir Rice case rolled up and fatally shot him so fast he had no time to hear or respond to any orders they gave.http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cleveland-boy-tamir-rice-wasnt-reaching-pellet-gun-report-n474906Previous reports concluded that officer Timothy Loehmann shot the 12-year-old within 2 seconds of opening his car door. The new analysis determined it happened even faster, within less than a second.
With the patrol car windows rolled up, Tamir Rice could not have heard commands to show his hands, Wobrock added.
"The scientific analysis and timing involved do not support any claim that there was a meaningful exchange between Officer Loehmann and Tamir Rice, before he was shot," Wobrock said. Yet here is what police, unaware of video, claimed in their reports:
... I believed at first the male was going to run. I think I told my partner 'watch him he's going to run.' However, he stopped and turned toward our cruiser."
Garmback wrote that "part of my intentions was to keep him away from entering the Recreation Center Building." He stated he first saw the gun "about the time Ptl. Loehmann exited the cruiser. The male was pulling it from the right front area of his waistband. I thought the gun was real."
Officer Loehmann wrote that "the driving conditions were cold and wet, with a layer of snow (like a dusting). I estimated we were traveling about 10 MPH based on weather conditions. I saw the suspect pick up an object and stick it down into his waistband and he stood up and walked towards the Recreation Center."
Loehmann went on to write "I was fixed on his waistband and hand area. I was trained to keep my eyes on his hands because 'hands may kill.' The male appeared to be over 18 years old and about 185 pounds. The suspect lifted his shirt reached down into his waistband. We continued to yell 'show me your hands.' I was focused on the suspect. Even when he was reaching into his waistband, I didn't fire. I still was yelling the command 'show me your hands.'"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/01/tamir-rice-shooting-officers-statements-released/76629260/
Loehmann wrote that he fired two shots "based on 'tap-tap' training." After Tamir fell to the ground, he said he "didn't know if the threat was over.ALL THIS IN LESS THAN ONE SECOND.