5 U.S. law enforcement officers shot dead within days

[Nice Squirrel]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/law-enforcement-officers-shot-dead/index.html

Gunfire claimed the lives of at least five on-duty officers in an unusually deadly week for U.S. law enforcement.

In four days, five officers were killed in the line of duty in shootings around the country, more than doubling the number of officers who have died by gunfire so far this year.

A Colorado sheriff's deputy died after being shot Monday; two sheriff's deputies were killed Wednesday in Maryland; a police officer in Georgia is dead after gunfire broke out Thursday while he and other officers were serving a warrant; and a police officer shot Wednesday night in North Dakota did not survive, authorities say.

Let's just make sure we put this in perspective. It is not the gun's fault.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

And for those who blame BLM for attacks on police, how many of the attackers here were white guys?

 

[Derec]

The case from Georgia is a police officer shot by a guy he was serving a warrant on in Clayton County. Not much information about the perp.

 

[Derec]

And for those who blame BLM for attacks on police, how many of the attackers here were white guys?

Identity of the perp in the Clayton County shooting is conspicuously absent (probably black given the area though) but the cop was black. Not that #BLMers care about his black life of course.

What #BLMer have to say about dead cops:

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

And for those who blame BLM for attacks on police, how many of the attackers here were white guys?

Based on who didn't start this thread...

It really is a crazy situation, and why Officers need to be vigilant. And in before someone says something about BLM not protesting over these deaths because the perpetrators of these killings will be brought to justice.

 

[Bronzeage]

Can someone explain how open carry of a firearm is supposed to make a person safer?

 

[Jaecp]

Can someone explain how open carry of a firearm is supposed to make a person safer?

It's the basic MAD, doctrine from the cold war

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Can someone explain how open carry of a firearm is supposed to make a person safer?

Well, there's about 765,000 cops in the US and only five of them have been killed over the past few days. That means that 99.9999935% of them weren't killed. I think it's safe to assume that the fact that they were openly carrying firearms accounts for about 95% of that survival rate. The other five percent is due to the fact that the increase in the usage of debit cards for payment means that there's not as much cash on hand in doughnut shops, making them less attractive targets for thieves, and so the cops were not hanging around in places which got robbed quite as often.

 

[Bronzeage]

Can someone explain how open carry of a firearm is supposed to make a person safer?

Well, there's about 765,000 cops in the US and only five of them have been killed over the past few days. That means that 99.9999935% of them weren't killed. I think it's safe to assume that the fact that they were openly carrying firearms accounts for about 95% of that survival rate. The other five percent is due to the fact that the increase in the usage of debit cards for payment means that there's not as much cash on hand in doughnut shops, making them less attractive targets for thieves, and so the cops were not hanging around in places which got robbed quite as often.

That's an interesting statistical analysis, but if the same algorithm to the population at large, the number of civilians who were not openly carrying a fire arm and were not killed, would be a greater percentage.

 

[laughing dog]

Until we know how many of these shooters wore black berets, I think we should STFU about BLMers.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Well, there's about 765,000 cops in the US and only five of them have been killed over the past few days. That means that 99.9999935% of them weren't killed. I think it's safe to assume that the fact that they were openly carrying firearms accounts for about 95% of that survival rate. The other five percent is due to the fact that the increase in the usage of debit cards for payment means that there's not as much cash on hand in doughnut shops, making them less attractive targets for thieves, and so the cops were not hanging around in places which got robbed quite as often.

That's an interesting statistical analysis, but if the same algorithm to the population at large, the number of civilians who were not openly carrying a fire arm and were not killed, would be a greater percentage.

Ya, but the reason that those people weren't killed because there was a cop with a gun in the area and the criminals knew it.

 

[Bronzeage]

That's an interesting statistical analysis, but if the same algorithm to the population at large, the number of civilians who were not openly carrying a fire arm and were not killed, would be a greater percentage.

Ya, but the reason that those people weren't killed because there was a cop with a gun in the area and the criminals knew it.

This cop was still alive, I presume.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Ya, but the reason that those people weren't killed because there was a cop with a gun in the area and the criminals knew it.

This cop was still alive, I presume.

All but a fractional percentage of them were alive and well, yes.