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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Fri May 6, 2016, 05:44 AM May 2016

Stopping guns and skipping stones

Perhaps the only good things that have come out of gun violence in America are the brilliant movies that have been made about it. Independent Lens will screen two of the best in a two-night event on PBS called “Armed in America.”

Both films follow the transformation of conservatives who are initially pro-gun, but after enlightening experiences become advocates of gun control legislation and the reform of police use of deadly force.

Brad Barber and Scott Christopherson’s “Peace Officer” (Monday at 9 p.m.) tells the story of “Dub” Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained Utah’s first SWAT team. Thirty years later, that same unit gunned down his son-in-law, who was armed and despondent after an incident of domestic violence.

Lawrence found the circumstances suspicious. In the film, he examines the evidence and builds a case against law enforcement involved in the shooting, and more generally against arming the nation’s police with advanced military weaponry. It is both a detective story and a spiritual odyssey.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies/2016/05/05/stopping-guns-and-skipping-stones/mebd49DZ6b66pv1WVbjErI/story.html
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Stopping guns and skipping stones (Original Post) SecularMotion May 2016 OP
Heavily armed cops..... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #1
One of the police depts near me got a new toy JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #3
If all you have is a hammer.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #4
Armored vehicles are so yesterday ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #5
So that's an MWRAP...? CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #6
I only saw it once on the road. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #7
Just your friendly neighborhood.... CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #8
Friendly, yeah. It wasn't painted "cheery desert sand" like the photo I linked to. JustABozoOnThisBus May 2016 #9
Odd....sounds scripted. ileus May 2016 #2
 

CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
1. Heavily armed cops.....
Fri May 6, 2016, 06:38 AM
May 2016

.....are not a gun control problem.

They're a Cop Control Problem.

Oh, I just thought of a new DU Group - Cop Control

 

CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
4. If all you have is a hammer....
Fri May 6, 2016, 01:47 PM
May 2016

...everything looks like a nail.

If all you drive is an armored vehicle....

...every civilian looks like......?

This is where they get all that crap...

http://gsaxcess.gov/

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,737 posts)
5. Armored vehicles are so yesterday ...
Fri May 6, 2016, 01:50 PM
May 2016

... this baby is "mine-resistant". Because our little piece of suburbia has a big problem with mines, y'know.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,737 posts)
7. I only saw it once on the road.
Fri May 6, 2016, 02:09 PM
May 2016

The "image" I saw was a very slow-moving white elephant, sucking tax dollars and blocking traffic. I was glad when the road widened and I could zip around it. It was doing 20 in a 35 zone. I think if such a vehicle were necessary for a police action, I'd call in the National Guard.

A ridiculous toy.

(In my day, "mine-resistant" meant taking the steel pot off your head and sitting on it. )

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,737 posts)
9. Friendly, yeah. It wasn't painted "cheery desert sand" like the photo I linked to.
Fri May 6, 2016, 02:25 PM
May 2016

The one I saw was flat-black, with the name of the police department "ghosted" on the side in dark charcoal gray.

Truly ominous-looking.

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