Tuesday, January 11, 2011

We're the Only Ones Illuminating Enough

Fatal Plano police shooting highlights dangers of gun-flashlight combo [Read]
Oh, I see. It's the combo's fault...
Posted by David Codrea at 1/11/2011 01:10:00 PM

8 comments:

Crotalus (Dont Tread on Me) said...

Once again, we have a vaunted "Only One" shooting an unarmed man, possibly the wrong man.

1/11/2011 1:17 PM
Defender said...

This is probably what happened when a drunken frat boy was showing off his gun/flashlight combo and killed a female student, the roomate of the niece of a former reporter. She and her fellow Authorized Journalists on Facebook immediately began calling for absolute bans of guns. They understand nothing of freedom or responsibility.
As for these cops... pressure switch on the PISTOL GRIP, guys, not a trigger-type lever *near the trigger.* What did you do before flashlight-mounted handguns and shotguns? Gun in one hand, flashlight in the other. It was good enough for police for 100 years. Not tactical enough today, I guess. Not the way the Navy SEALS and Delta do it.
You're not them.

1/11/2011 2:10 PM
Phelps said...

If only there was the technology for us to make some sort of illuminating device that could be handheld instead of attached coaxially with a gun, you know, some sort of way to get a light flashed where you needed it, some sort of handheld flash-light.

That would be awesome if we had some of those.

1/11/2011 2:51 PM
parabarbarian said...

They look really tacticool on TV so everybody wants one.

1/11/2011 5:20 PM
Anonymous said...

FTA:
A Collin County grand jury that was considering manslaughter charges took no action in the case against the sergeant last year.

Am I reading that this officer already plugged someone the year before? What did they have strapped to their gat that time?

1/11/2011 6:42 PM
Ned said...

Good one, Phelps. It seems pretty idiotic to fasten a device to a gun where one has to cover whatever one is illuminating with the barrel in order to see the target. Goes against a number of gun-safety edicts.

Perhaps they're appropriate in a war zone. Police have enough trouble shooting folks - including other police officers - without having to cover them with the barrel just to light them up.

But I remember another case where an only one was in the process of tazing a suspect who was handcuffed face down in the floor. Grabbed his Glock and lit him up with a lead pill instead of shocking him "into submission."

Seems these "mistakes" are laughed off unless it happens to a member of the non-only one hoi polloi.

Then it's Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to jail you go...

1/11/2011 7:07 PM
Anonymous said...

Reminds me of when my daddy told me to never use the rifle scope to look at other hunters/people. Where the scope points, the rifle points as well.

One would think this would be obvious...

1/12/2011 7:16 PM
Anonymous said...

If a mere peon/civilian had "accidentally" killed an unarmed man, they would be facing manslaughter charges - at MINIMUM! Anti-gun DA's would be going for a murder conviction. But since it was an "only one" and the only one who got killed was a peon with a criminal record, he gets off scott free. George Orwell was right, some animals are more equal than others.

1/13/2011 2:00 PM

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