Rash of shootings, Spidey sense tingling

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Fire every single one of them.
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It does keep getting worse. Good article in the Texas Tribune about it: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/20 ... e-records/

If accurate, someone (or several someones) should walk the plank, from a helicopter about 20 miles out and 1500 feet over the Gulf.
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Pawpaw has thoughts on the matter.

"Honestly, I don't know what they were doing. It seems to me like the whole department had the "it's not going to happen here" state of mind. When you get into that state of mind, you fail to do the hard physical training and psychological training.

This response was a fuck-up from start to finish."
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Vonz90 wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:09 am https://www.foxnews.com/us/uvalde-shoot ... 58-minutes

It keeps getting worse
If I read the above article correctly, one of the officers' own wife had been shot and was bleeding to death while they waited outside, and he knew it. :shock:
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Netpackrat wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 2:18 am
Vonz90 wrote: Tue Jun 21, 2022 3:09 am https://www.foxnews.com/us/uvalde-shoot ... 58-minutes

It keeps getting worse
If I read the above article correctly, one of the officers' own wife had been shot and was bleeding to death while they waited outside, and he knew it. :shock:
That is what I get too.
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He attempted to enter, and was detained and disarmed.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 256559.php
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Fire the entire department, and the Chief, who was the onsite commander, should be "highly" encouraged to kill himself.
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Then give them each a white feather
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scipioafricanus wrote: Wed Jun 22, 2022 9:58 pm Fire the entire department, and the Chief, who was the onsite commander, should be "highly" encouraged to kill himself.
Where is the like button.
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The Japanese have a tradition that is particularly well suited to taking responsibility for such a profound fuck-up.
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