wcw43921 Posted February 18, 2015 Report Share Posted February 18, 2015 Just When You Think It Couldn't Have Been Any Worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 L. Marcus, Ragitsu and Lucius 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 24, 2015 Report Share Posted February 24, 2015 ... Don't you ever change that tagline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 If you say so. Domestic renditions of Americans by American police Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Chicago police torturer lent expertise to Guantanamo Bay interrogators Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Whereas Florida police merely tase elderly people with their hands up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Man, having the antimatter bomb in my basement with the deadman switch keyed to my pulse looks better and better all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted February 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 What are the odds that a taser will send someone with a weak heart/pacemaker into cardiac arrest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 I find it interesting that we need an overseas newspaper to break a story about a secret (most likely illegal) police facility in the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 It's common for the local press to be unable or unwilling to report on government corruption and abuse in third world countries. Xavier Onassiss 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pattern Ghost Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 What are the odds that a taser will send someone with a weak heart/pacemaker into cardiac arrest? Fairly low, but it happens. Tasers are less lethal, rather than non-lethal IMO. Death or serious injury can also result from the subsequent fall. Edit: Here's a link. It has numbers and stuff. I got it from the internet, and my computer never lies, so this must be good data. http://electronicvillage.blogspot.com/2009/05/taser-related-deaths-in-united-states.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Chicago police torturer lent expertise to Guantanamo Bay interrogators I wonder if any of the cops at these 'black sites' are ever going to go to jail themselves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Lol no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 25, 2015 Report Share Posted February 25, 2015 Those skills are too useful for anyone to actually be punished for having them. It's like corporate tax evasion and consumer fraud that way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
薔薇語 Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I wonder if any of the cops at these 'black sites' are ever going to go to jail themselves? Silly Hermit, Jails are for the folks like you and me. (^^) La Rose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 If you say so. Domestic renditions of Americans by American police Another thing not to like about Chicago. I have said it before, and I will say it again. The biggest reason I distrusted Obama from the time he started campaigning for the Presidency is that he came out of the Chicago Political machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 It's common for the local press to be unable or unwilling to report on government corruption and abuse in third world countries. So Chicago and New York City are Third World? Hmm, that might make some sense... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Not to interrupt, saw this today. On the one hand, we have a problem in this country with...well just about everyone. On the other, it's not easy to be a cop. Here we see an officer comparing his gun to a bbgun he took from a school yard fight. bigbywolfe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ragitsu Posted February 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Looks like the good guys will start using Berettas again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Here we see an officer comparing his gun to a bbgun he took from a school yard fight. Which is why, when I was fairly heavily into airsoft, our group was pretty militant about having members follow transportation rules for real steel firearms--in a case, preferably locked, unless you were indoors at home or on the field. We made it very clear that waving a real-looking gun around in public was likely to result in a real gunfight with real cops, and deservedly so. Unfortunately the police mindset, at best, seems to be that any held object looks like a gun, and any movement of the hands looks like "reaching for the waistband". At worst, cops are killing with impunity and trotting these excuses out as a matter of routine to deflect discipline. Ragitsu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
薔薇語 Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 At worst, cops are killing with impunity and trotting these excuses out as a matter of routine to deflect discipline. You are more generous than I if you think this is the worst case scenario. To me it just seems like the most plausible. Too many police like being able to kill too many people with impunity. La Rose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I'd agree with you but I don't want to get shot. Cancer and 薔薇語 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Not to interrupt, saw this today. On the one hand, we have a problem in this country with...well just about everyone. On the other, it's not easy to be a cop. Here we see an officer comparing his gun to a bbgun he took from a school yard fight. I had one something like that 20 years ago. It could hold 20 bbs or 1 pellet. Cocked like the real thing also. Lived in the country and its purpose was keeping dogs/coyotes away from the sheep pasture. Nowadays, I would think twice before letting my son have one like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twilight Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 I had one something like that 20 years ago. It could hold 20 bbs or 1 pellet. Cocked like the real thing also. Lived in the country and its purpose was keeping dogs/coyotes away from the sheep pasture. Nowadays, I would think twice before letting my son have one like that. They're not supposed to be that realistic anymore. They should have some bright orange part on them, so you can tell it's not a real gun. Heck they had to recolor a reissue of G1 Megatron for that reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankL Posted February 26, 2015 Report Share Posted February 26, 2015 Wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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