Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumStopping guns and skipping stones
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 Christophersons Peace Officer (Monday at 9 p.m.) tells the story of Dub Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained Utahs 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 nations 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
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts).....are not a gun control problem.
They're a Cop Control Problem.
Oh, I just thought of a new DU Group - Cop Control
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,737 posts)worth about $750,000. Fun times.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)...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)... this baby is "mine-resistant". Because our little piece of suburbia has a big problem with mines, y'know.
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)Never saw one before.
WTF type of image are they projecting to the public???
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,737 posts)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. )
CompanyFirstSergeant
(1,558 posts)....robocop.
Unreal.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,737 posts)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.
ileus
(15,396 posts)No one that's really safety minded is going to flip so easily.