Reality:
First, police are more likely to shoot you if you have a gun, unless you shoot first.
Second, police have a lot of ways to retaliate against civilians, and some police would retaliate against a civilian who shot a police officer. People get killed when they go against the police… and the cases go unsolved.
Whoa, that one sneaked up on me. Way to go, MAD.
MAD has always been great.
If they were dealing with the violent insertion of those objects into people, most often leading to death, on a weekly basis then you can bet they’d be experts on how much preventable misery can be caused by a gummy bear.
(Checks patent on gummy bear guns)
Well?
She’s busy, gotta get the patent before Cody Wilson gets his Ghost Gummy Gunner ready.
Blame the victim, right.
For the record, most of the ‘facts’ in that article are wrong.
The gunman started by shooting his ex-fiancee in the parking lot. Many, many times. She was an ER doctor at Mercy. He then went inside, and the police officer and pharmaceutical assistant were shot then, along with the gunman himself (still not sure if he killed himself or the officer did).
This is a better article: https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/19/us/mercy-hospital-chicago-shooting/index.html
Thanks. I heard it on the radio, and more-or-less just posted a link to the first story I found about it.
It’s actually an important distinction, because most of the coverage is all about the police officer who died, rather than drawing attention to the fact that, once again, this is a story about a man killing a woman.
From the local paper, interviewing an eyewitness:
James Gray saw at least two people get shot. Gray said he was coming out of the clinic area when he saw a man in a black coat, black hat and dark pants shoot a woman three times in the chest. The man and the woman had been walking and talking to each other before the shooting, he said. The gunman stood over the woman and shot her three more times after she fell to the ground, said Gray. Then a squad car turned its lights on and came down the drive and the gunman shot at the squad car.
“It was chaos,” said Gray. “It was just mass chaos.”
Gray said the gun looked like a 9 mm handgun; a police source said authorities had identified it as a 9 mm.
When the gunman came into the hospital, it appeared that he was shooting people at random, said Gray, who saw one other person shot.
