So what's my beef? Isn't this column supposed to be about "gun rights"? Why the bleeding heart for a reputed gangster? [More]No "bleeding heart"--but today's Gun Rights Examiner column argues why we all should be concerned.
Bottom line: If the cops can do this to him, they can do this to you. And you'd better believe there are plenty who would cheer on the abuse of a gun owner just as loudly as some would cheer on the abuse of a gangster.
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Ya know, these steroid fed, over-inflated bastards think that they can get away with whatever violence they want to subject the citizenry with.
ENOUGH!
Bob
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A kick to the head or a lucky blow with a baton or flashlight COULD become execution without trial. No matter what the man has done or is doing at the time, I thought that was, hey, VIGILANTISM, which they tell US we're engaged in any time we use force to repel aggression.
Reports say the occupants of the car were throwing objects out during the early part of the pursuit. That's nice. Putting drugs, knives and guns LITERALLY "on our streets." The law doesn't keep them from having and using them, just from being willing to be CAUGHT with them. We see it with guns all the time here in Exile-land. Kids find them under bushes in schoolyards.
In running from whatever kind of "traffic stop" it was, Mr. Rodriguez became a tactical problem to be solved rather than a person. Often it requires much less. If we allow it for the worst of us, it will creep to the rest of us. It has.
if a cop can get away with a swift punishing kick, why not shoot the fellow in the arm or leg? in fact, why not just blow him away right then and there? if government officials are simply always right in their decisions because their "state of mind" cannot be questioned, then there is no need for judge or jury.
in fact, what's this guy running from? he might as well just shoot back at the "official." in fact, why should he even wait until he is being chased? he and his kind might as well declare open war on anyone in a uniform and hunt them down.
if criminals can freely decide to do whatever it was that they are subsequently chased for, and can never be stopped ahead of time -- because it is impossible to calculate men's intentions -- then they might as well cut out the innocent middlemen and seek out the big fish.
of course this would only work for a little while.
then they would use the middlemen as bait. see how that works?
"we have met the enemy, and he is us."
It's really hard to explain to people the whole "if it can happen, then it can happen to you" idea. People have been conditioned to look at the piece of white trash or the ghetto thug on COPS and say "well, he had it coming, so I don't care if the police tased him repeatedly after they had him handcuffed on the ground."
Someday, EVERYONE will "have it coming."
The rights of man are the common property of us all; the violation of those rights against even the basest of us is an attack not just against that man, but an attack upon that sacred commons. Our rights that need the most vigorous defense in every case, even when the subject of the abridgment is not worthy of our sympathy.
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