I prefer the hand-trowel. Easier to conceal. Also available with rifle-stock for long-range shoots.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Not funny; the rate at which trigger happy idiot cops are slaughtering mentally ill people in this country is horrific. Police in England and other countries where firearms aren’t routinely carried are able to use their training to deescalate situations like that described in the OP without harming the person needing apprehension and medical intervention, but here our cops invariably fail to employ deescalation tactics and instead jump to use a firearm when quite obviously a taser would have been more than adequate to meet the ‘threat’.
Policing in this country has become a widespread epidemic of human rights violations.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
But the stupid header "Cop fatally shoots man with shovel" is funny and the subject line (When guns are outlawed) is very smart.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
MajGenl.Meade wrote:Cops vs spades . . . will it never end?
To get from the nunnery to the school where she was a beginning teacher, the young nun had to pass by a construction site where an addition was being built onto the church. Each time she walked by, the men on the construction crew would make cat calls and whistle because they knew it annoyed her. They would also curse at each other, taking the Lord's name in vain, among other things. One day the harassment was more than she could bear. When she got back to the nunnery, she asked to speak to the Mother Superior. She complained about the men.
The Mother Superior said "It's no big deal sister". It's just that some men can be very crude. They tend to call a spade a spade".
"But Mother Superior," she cried, "he called it a fu_ _ing shovel".
A friend of Doc's, one of only two B-29 bombers still flying.
BoSoxGal wrote:Not funny; the rate at which trigger happy idiot cops are slaughtering mentally ill people in this country is horrific. Police in England and other countries where firearms aren’t routinely carried are able to use their training to deescalate situations like that described in the OP without harming the person needing apprehension and medical intervention, but here our cops invariably fail to employ deescalation tactics and instead jump to use a firearm when quite obviously a taser would have been more than adequate to meet the ‘threat’.
Policing in this country has become a widespread epidemic of human rights violations.
It always was. It's just a little harder for the thugs in blue to cover it up as easily.