New York City Police are now confirming that the nine
bystanders who were shot in Friday’s Empire State Building shooting spree were
shot by police responding to the scene. One
officer shot seven times and one shot nine times. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, "It
appears that all nine of the victims were struck either by fragments or by
bullets fired by police." The
gunman took ten of the rounds.
COMMENTS:
Okay, let’s start with the math: seven shots and nine shots totals
16 shots fired by the two officers. The
gunman took 10 rounds, presumably leaving six shots to hit the nine
bystanders. Okay, we can guess that three
shots hit both a bystander and the gunman.
NYPD admits the officers had never fired weapons in a patrol practice
session before. One of the first things
you learn in obtaining a concealed weapons permit is that you never fire unless
you have a clear shot and no bystanders are in the line of fire. It’s a tough call; here you have a gunman who
has just killed somebody and he’s waving his gun around in a crowd, ready to
shoot again. Still, training tells you
to wait for the clear shot; otherwise,
you don’t know that you are going to hit him with the first shot and you may kill
someone else. This is very bad training. Granted, they got their man, but these
officers should never have been on patrol while carrying a loaded firearm. That’s my Sunday morning quarterback
assessment of what happened; NYPD is culpable.
TODAY’S QUERIES & ANSWERS:
Q. Why does Fox News
keep such liberals as Juan Williams, Alan Colmes and Bob Beckel around? (Lyle ~ Klamath Falls, OR)
A. Because Fox, unlike other networks, wants to present the
viewer with opposing views on subjects of editorial content. I don’t know about you, but it’s refreshing
to me to have a source that provides me with information from several viewpoints
that I can use to decide my position. My
major complaint is that they don’t give us a few minutes of updated news during
every non-news hour.
Q. Whatever happened with those thousands of blogs Obama
shut down last spring? (Lillian ~ Hat
Creek, CA)
A. As far as I know, they’re still down. The media obviously refuses to cover the
story.
Q. Joe Biden made a remark a week or so ago about putting
blacks back in chains. Was he
serious? (Rupert ~ Richmond, CA)
A. It’s not a question of whether or not he was serious; it’s
a demonstration of their total disregard of Americans and digressive
cultures. It’s the epitome of
elitism. Don’t feel singled out, though;
they’ve done the same thing to religious people, to business owners, to gun
owners… They just want to make it clear to you that they are better than
you. Is that acceptable to you?
TODAY’S QUOTE:
“New predictions out today claim 42 percent of Americans
will be obese by the year 2030. They say
the only way to stop that is for the government to step in. Oh yeah, when it comes to trimming the fat
and tightening your belt, what better way than the U.S. government?” ~ Jay Leno
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