No sympathy for Gunmen

[tommyardin]

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If he was going to use the gun, why did he throw it over the fence as he got out of the car?

Is this a serious post?

Also describing Duggan as a 'minor criminal' in a in earlier post is outrageous. Minor criminals commit minor crimes, carry a gun (with or without intent, and no legitimate reason) is serious.

Don't people have to be responsible for their actions anymore? Straight out of the Shami Chabrabati school of liberal apologism.
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I agree with the last statement by pilninggas.
I don’t know the details of the crime or the specific offence/case.
If you carry a gun how is any police officer meant to know what your intentions are.
Even if it’s a replica gun how is the officer meant to know.
We are not talking school playground stuff here, the police put their life on the line, he or she possibly has a spouse and children at home who love and rely on him. They may also only have a second to make the decision.
Point a gun or verbally threaten to shoot a policeman with a gun and expect to get shot, if you not prepared to accept that you will probably die, don’t carry a gun.
It’s not unlike the sh-t you hear on the TV News most weeks of the year:
This is hypothetical by the way, I have not done it yet.
He strangled his wife when the state of his mind was emotionally unstable, upset and confused or he was in a state shock, well he may have been emotionally unhinged, confused, or his mind in a state of shock, or any other term you might like to use, but, he still strangled her, he took her life, he is guilty of the crime.
It might seemed hard because we don’t know how he had been (Hypothetically) provoked or what she had done but he still took her life.
Pilingggas said “Don't people have to be responsible for their actions anymore?”and he is spot on.