The beauty of the internet is we can get the truth from each other, we don't need these media and political gatekeepers. People everywhere can freely exchange their ideas and we can judge for ourselves. That the Left feels a need to censor because they think elections are being interfered with via Fake News only says one thing about what they think about society: they think that people are stupid and incapable of discernment. It's totally unfair.
Many people now have been rendered incapable of discernment by schools and social media censoring. Here in the Bay, you wouldn’t believe the stupid shit you hear people believe about the news. Basically everything you’ve ever heard CNN say is taken as gospel x 100. Was talking to a client the other day that started going off on the Blake shooting, the guy that was running away from the cops and then to his car. Lady I was talking to started jumping up and down saying “we deserve this, these fucking crackers keep shooting innocent black people, we fucking deserve this, these fucking crackers!!!” Damn near frothing at the mouth, then going on to call people hicks and rednecks and what not. Keep in mind she herself is an older white lady that’s overweight, and looks like the stereotype of a crazy redneck lady. You could put her in any one of these towns and she’d look like you were making fun of the people that lived there.
Since it was a work situation I wasn’t about to stir shit up, but I did say that “you saw a short video a few seconds long. The guy had a long criminal history, the cops were called there to arrest him, he started flailing around resisting arrest as everyone kept telling him not to including his family, he was mostly likely armed, and he wasn’t exactly reaching into his car to drive away, he was going for something.” She kept saying they should have tased him or used rubber bullets then. I said they probably tried that already, and if they didn’t, it’s not like all cops are covered in tasers and bean bag guns and what not. Most police departments don’t make much anyway. Low and behold, time goes on and we find they already had tried to tase him, etc.
I didn’t say it at the time, but I felt like saying “if I was a cop and some crazy asshole that was about to go away for a long time started reaching abruptly into his car and ignoring our orders after he’d just tried to attack us, I’d have unloaded on him too. Was he reaching in there for a birthday present? I doubt it.” She kept saying they should have been trained better and not shot him so many times. All I thought was “that’s what they’re trained to do. You keep shooting until the threat is eliminated. If more cops are around, they all jump in to help. Everybody shoots until somebody drops.” If you’re afraid of him dying, it’s not like he’s going to be rendered ‘more dead’ if he’s been shot 3+ times with a 45 near the center of mass. He was lucky to be alive at all in this case.
My boss had an opinion formulated without seeing the video. I told him it was completely justified. He said "but they shot him in the back???" I said ya, because he turned around to grab something out of his car despite being told to put his hands up.
He said "but 4 times?" Or whoever many.
I said "it doesn't take that long to fire off 7 rounds. That's how many it took to stop him."
Haha, I’d be fine legalizing and popularizing 100 caliber bullets. Walk around with absolute hand canons. Just shoot it in their general direction and the threat explodes. Everything behind it too. And whatever is behind them.
It is a hilarious contrast if you think about it. They make gun laws based on movies, but people are surprised when 4-7 shots are fired to bring someone down. In movies it’s more like hundreds.
People who scream about police brutality are, strangely enough, often perched in an ivory tower. They ignore all other context to try to make the situation look as bad as possible.
The beauty of the internet is we can get the truth from each other, we don't need these media and political gatekeepers. People everywhere can freely exchange their ideas and we can judge for ourselves. That the Left feels a need to censor because they think elections are being interfered with via Fake News only says one thing about what they think about society: they think that people are stupid and incapable of discernment. It's totally unfair.
Many people now have been rendered incapable of discernment by schools and social media censoring. Here in the Bay, you wouldn’t believe the stupid shit you hear people believe about the news. Basically everything you’ve ever heard CNN say is taken as gospel x 100. Was talking to a client the other day that started going off on the Blake shooting, the guy that was running away from the cops and then to his car. Lady I was talking to started jumping up and down saying “we deserve this, these fucking crackers keep shooting innocent black people, we fucking deserve this, these fucking crackers!!!” Damn near frothing at the mouth, then going on to call people hicks and rednecks and what not. Keep in mind she herself is an older white lady that’s overweight, and looks like the stereotype of a crazy redneck lady. You could put her in any one of these towns and she’d look like you were making fun of the people that lived there.
Since it was a work situation I wasn’t about to stir shit up, but I did say that “you saw a short video a few seconds long. The guy had a long criminal history, the cops were called there to arrest him, he started flailing around resisting arrest as everyone kept telling him not to including his family, he was mostly likely armed, and he wasn’t exactly reaching into his car to drive away, he was going for something.” She kept saying they should have tased him or used rubber bullets then. I said they probably tried that already, and if they didn’t, it’s not like all cops are covered in tasers and bean bag guns and what not. Most police departments don’t make much anyway. Low and behold, time goes on and we find they already had tried to tase him, etc.
I didn’t say it at the time, but I felt like saying “if I was a cop and some crazy asshole that was about to go away for a long time started reaching abruptly into his car and ignoring our orders after he’d just tried to attack us, I’d have unloaded on him too. Was he reaching in there for a birthday present? I doubt it.” She kept saying they should have been trained better and not shot him so many times. All I thought was “that’s what they’re trained to do. You keep shooting until the threat is eliminated. If more cops are around, they all jump in to help. Everybody shoots until somebody drops.” If you’re afraid of him dying, it’s not like he’s going to be rendered ‘more dead’ if he’s been shot 3+ times with a 45 near the center of mass. He was lucky to be alive at all in this case.
My boss had an opinion formulated without seeing the video. I told him it was completely justified. He said "but they shot him in the back???" I said ya, because he turned around to grab something out of his car despite being told to put his hands up. He said "but 4 times?" Or whoever many. I said "it doesn't take that long to fire off 7 rounds. That's how many it took to stop him."
He shrugged and said "we need better guns."
Lol
Haha, I’d be fine legalizing and popularizing 100 caliber bullets. Walk around with absolute hand canons. Just shoot it in their general direction and the threat explodes. Everything behind it too. And whatever is behind them.
It is a hilarious contrast if you think about it. They make gun laws based on movies, but people are surprised when 4-7 shots are fired to bring someone down. In movies it’s more like hundreds.
Bolt Pistols from W40K Commissars, perfect power/weight ratio
The old saying applies here:
Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six.
People who scream about police brutality are, strangely enough, often perched in an ivory tower. They ignore all other context to try to make the situation look as bad as possible.