Nick Fury
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Very enlightening that the so called verbal threat occurred weeks before confiscation of weaponry. Clearly it took this much time to do a thorough investigation. What a ridiculous crew of asshats.
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Very enlightening that the so called verbal threat occurred weeks before confiscation of weaponry. Clearly it took this much time to do a thorough investigation. What a ridiculous crew of asshats.
the only school issue i can recall before all the craziness was the texas tower shooter sometime in the mid 60's. there seemed to be a lull and moratorium on any major school mass violence for a good period of time.Shocking that 40 years ago we survived without a resource officer in every school.
yeah, oddly the only 2 people i remember from my grammar school days, late 50's..into the early 60's, were our janitor, bill and the lunch lady, mrs. morgan. bill bought this really cool 1960 chevy impalla that seems to be the only car i remember him driving. the huge ride on lawn mower he used probably didn't count as a cool ride, does it? the impalla was a horrendous split pea soup green color. and mrs. morgan, she filled your plate to the max with the hot lunch, no child went hungry in her cafeteria. your folks couldn't scrape up the $1/week for the 20 cent/daily lunch, no problem. mrs. morgan took care of you with no fanfare or embarrassment. everyone had a hot mid day meal and milk. the woman worked 35 years in the school system without being reprimanded for feeding kids who needed help. everyone else in the school system was insignificant.and the janitor... he was named Wally
ERPO / Reg Flag is synonymous with "Suitability" laws such as Mass has.
Agree. Just once i'd like to hear 'That's not an offense', or 'That activity is protected by law.' Instead, they show up and say 'We got a call', 'we got a complaint.'
I heard it once. Credit where due. Over the scanner one day, Framingham PD dispatch sent a cruiser to Stop&Shop where a church lady had spied a GUN on someone's hip as he got into his car and drove away. Cop took the info (she'd written down his description, the car and the plate) and dispatch confirmed he was an LTC holder (relaying his name and address over the radio ). Cop asked if dispatch wanted him to go to the man's home and dispatch said "why? He has an LTC. He's legal." or words to that close effect.
I imagine if he had come up without one they'd have visited the guy to chat about it.
It is always the soft targets first.
Much safer and predictable for the popo to disarm an 84 year old than say a 26 year old.
And in the softest places, i mean if massachusetts is sinking (politically), places like the vineyard are the ballast.
The firearms are out of his hands and that is their goal. Fortunately for this man, his family is in the business, but for so many others, storage fees for the firearms along with legal fees for appeal can become prohibitive.
I dunno how smart it is to p- off a guy that's lived longer than the tables say he should and has (even if it was decades ago) experience in warfare.
Most of us would lose our homes, our families, our fortunes. He would lose another 2 to 7 years of creaking bones and playing cribbage.
I guess. I mean they got his firearms. He was compliant with their demands. How is that not a soft target?
No offense to the octogenarians out there, but it would be a damn sight to see one try to physically resist an officer.
The other losses you mention, family , money, etc. also make someone a soft target. And this man may have those as well.
Hell, in The Patriot, Mel didn't get Mel-ish when his farm was raided, and his house torched....he needed a bit more ("Stupid boy...." Jason Isaacs plays a great bad guy), before he got riled.
Well, most people that are generally law-abiding are not likely to go postal - "I've done nothing wrong, it's a mistake that will be cleared up...."
Witness the thread around here, "How do I get my guns back." Despite the fact that the OP in that thread was apparently railroaded, he STILL wanted to be polite and reasonable, because he was in the right.
The only people that bust caps in cops' asses, are criminals, before they shot the cops.
If you're a good guy (Eligible for an LTC), you're not of criminal attitude and intent, and are not likely to throw down.
Hell, in The Patriot, Mel didn't get Mel-ish when his farm was raided, and his house torched....he needed a bit more ("Stupid boy...." Jason Isaacs plays a great bad guy), before he got riled.
Damn few here, would do anything other than hand over the iron, when a bunch of cops show up, for no known reason. It's not cowardice; we just assume that all will be well...because it generally is.
We may carry for personal protection, but how many times have you actually needed it? (I know, I've not used my kitchen fire extinguisher, but I have one.) We live in a peaceful society, in a peaceful part of the world. We don't have a daily need to fight for survival. That's part of the reason I started my "First World Problems" thread.