cop ambushed in philly

[wesw]

is the mayor of philly a liar or an idiot?

kudos to the cops for being straight up about it.

[wesw]

sorry, my first video of the news conference didn t work correctly

[wesw]

sound on the second is bad, sorry. one more try...

[RayThom]

... started the earliest press conference with an admonition of lax gun control laws, calling for stricter ones regarding sales and registration. Regardless what side of the issue you're on it turned out that the handgun used in the execution of this crime was stolen from the home of another Philly cop a few years ago.

The USofA could have the strictest gun laws in the entire world but any perps hellbent on death and mayhem will always find a gun -- or two, or three, or more -- to carry out their nefarious deeds. The gun problem in America is a disease without a cure and all the intellectualizing about what needs to be done is merely lip service pandering to the masses.

Welcome to our new normal.

[MajGenl.Meade]

... especially Obama's Oscar nomination bid in which he lied and falsified information about mass shootings in the USA, aided and abetted by grieving but sadly brain-dead (temporarily for the cameras, no doubt) relatives. Pandering much?

As if your local inner-city hoodlums go to gun shows and seek out a private seller or jump on the internet with their credit cards to secure their crime-tool of choice.

[RayThom]

... especially Obama's Oscar nomination bid in which he lied and falsified information about mass shootings in the USA, aided and abetted by grieving but sadly brain-dead (temporarily for the cameras, no doubt) relatives. Pandering much?

Obama acts like he's some kind of power crazed leader of the Western world. And the parents of those dead children with their momentary displays of grief -- how manipulative can you get? I wonder if ol' BO can use some kind of executive action upon himself and leave office by the end of the year?

I'll tell you one thing, I'm never voting for him again... ever.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Not their grief, rAy. I'm referring to the exploitation of their shallow thinking - their children were gunned down by LEGALLY obtained firearms with background checks and all that. Not by any gun show loophole - nor yet by any private sale loophole.

As to power crazed - you made that up, not me. I wrote of his overacting and his false claims. Try refuting what's there some time; you can do it if you really want to

[Lord Jim]

Some common sense on this from Lindsey Graham:

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Friday that he doubted whether the man who fired at a Philadelphia police officer was directed by Islamic State terrorists in Syria but that "you're going to have more of this as long as they're perceived as winning.

"People don't pledge allegiance to losers," Graham, the South Carolina Republican who last month suspended his campaign for the presidential nomination, told John Berman on CNN.
He said that the alleged shooter in the attack, Edward Archer, 30, was "probably a guy, just nuts, who wanted to do this in the name of ISIS and not directed by people in Syria."

Archer, who pledged allegiance to Islam and ISIS after he was shot and arrested by police, ambushed police officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, as he sat in his marked patrol car.

Hartnett received a broken arm in the shooting.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said that Archer used a gun that was stolen in October 2013 from a police officer's residence.
Special:
"Hats off to the cop," Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told CNN. "He did a great thing. I'm glad he's alive. And I'm glad he fought back."

He said the ambush reflected two threats posed by ISIS, which is also known as ISIL.

"The organization itself that can recruit people and plan sophisticated attacks like Paris," Graham said. "And something like this, somebody inspired.

"It's no accident that there's been an uptick in these kind of attacks, as ISIL is seen to have done well against the West and beginning to accumulate power.

"The day that you take the caliphate down and destroy it, a lot of this goes away," Graham said.

Right on Lindsey...

This really isn't rocket surgery; the day we put these savages to rout and bring down their "caliphate", and have them running and hiding in caves, they will lose a lot of their appeal to these "lone wolf" types...

Our President seems to have a "strategy" for achieving this over a 20 year time line...

We need a strategy with a one year time line...

or less...

[Econoline]

It seems to me that the perception of Da'esh's "power"/"sophistication"/"winning"--in the US, at least--is being promoted and exaggerated by the Republican Party, for its own partisan political purposes. The Republican candidates for POTUS, Faux News, and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber have, in effect, joined the propaganda arm of Da'esh.

OTOH...in the words of one wise Democrat...

This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly....So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

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