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Carrying A Gun-Shaped iPhone 'Makes It Much Less Likely You'll Catch Your Plane' (cnet.com)
HughPickens.com writes: A passenger at London Stansted Airport seemed to think it was a good idea to have a gun-shaped iPhone case in his back pocket as he prepared to board a plane... [T]he police speculated on Twitter that they could proceed with charges against him for either a public order offense or for possession of an imitation firearm in a public place tweeting with the hashtag #dontbedaft that "Bringing this to an airport makes it much less likely you'll catch your plane."
[In 2015] the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey offered this warning on Facebook to potential users: "Please folks -- this cell phone case is not a cool product or a good idea. A police officer's job is hard enough, without having to make a split second decision in the dark of night when someone decides without thinking to pull this out while stopped for a motor vehicle violation..." One Twitter user responded, "On what planet is this a smart thing to do?" But the New Jersey prosecutor has asked their followers on social media to share their own opinions.
[In 2015] the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey offered this warning on Facebook to potential users: "Please folks -- this cell phone case is not a cool product or a good idea. A police officer's job is hard enough, without having to make a split second decision in the dark of night when someone decides without thinking to pull this out while stopped for a motor vehicle violation..." One Twitter user responded, "On what planet is this a smart thing to do?" But the New Jersey prosecutor has asked their followers on social media to share their own opinions.
And how many of those occupations involve getting shot at, stabbed or beaten as a matter of course? Getting called to a location specifically so you can be ambushed and killed because of numerous different reasons why someone wants revenge against you or simply bears a grudge against anybody who wears the same uniform? And how many of those occupations involve wearing bulletproof armor, and being armed at all times, and having an armed partner, simply as a *precaution* against the very real risk of death? Never mind, you're just another rancid moron who latches onto any dumb argument to "prove" a preconceived notion that happens to be dear to his world view. Logging is dangerous, therefore police don't risk getting shot. Enjoy your slashmod points, trash.
They are taught to shoot before there is any threat
They wouldn't even have BEEN at the scene in Baton Rouge if the guy in question hadn't been waving a gun around and threatening. That's why they were called. When the arrived, he refused to do as asked. Likewise after being tased, and again after another attempt to subdue him that way. And all 6'-4" and 300 pounds of him, with a gun on him, was not giving up his fighting as they tried doing it the old fashioned way, trying to pin him down. Yeah, there should have been four people on a guy that big who didn't want to go back to jail where he'd spent so much time for his other crimes. But you're really going with "no threat" at all before they had to resort to their fourth way of trying to deal with him?
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.