13 thoughts on “Justified Shooting, Or Fair Game?”

  1. It seems obvious.
    But more important it’s a disgrace to Congress.
    Which might seem weird to say of these critters which have no shame.
    But it’s not actually anything about these hordes of rent seekers.

  2. These shootings are always judgment calls. One policeman judged one way, all his colleagues made the opposite call. The people who got past didn’t hurt anyone, so it seems his colleagues were right, and he was the one who shot someone who didn’t actually post a threat.
    We don’t usually allow policemen to make claims that, Well, I thought it was a threat.

  3. Her death had to be justified in order to sustain the “insurrection” narrative. This isn’t about truth or justice any more. It’s about maintaining the illusion that those in charge actually know what they are doing.

  4. A black Capital Hill police officer shot and killed an unarmed white woman, then proclaims that he saved “thousands of lives.” The Left and the Press (but I repeat myself) holds him as a hero. Reverse the races and there are protests and riots across the country.

    1. And it just occurred to me, given the level of training 99% of law enforcement officers receive, it’s more than likely that if he DID try to shoot her he would have missed.

      2. Jack Dunphy says “Byrd’s intentions were good” but there is no evidence of that.

        Was Byrd – an incompetent boob – actually aiming for Ashlii Babbit? Or was he aiming at his fellow officers, under orders to ensure there would be a bloody shirt to wave?

        Yes, yes, that’s crazy talk. I’m just spinning a paranoid rayciss right-wing fantasy. The government would never do anything like that.

    2. There are pics of him from that day with his finger on the trigger while no threats were around, just walking around with his finger on the boom switch.

  7. Maybe instead of defunding the Police, disarming them would be better. Capitol police should be more like ushers in a cinema.

  8. I doubt if anyone in the mainstream media knows the four rules of firearm safety, but in the order in which I teach them they are: Always treat a firearm as loaded, always keep the muzzle pointed in a safe direction, never put your finger on the trigger until you’re ready to shoot, and always be sure not only of your target, but of what’s behind it. This Bozo violated the second and fourth rules on such a monumental scale that I can’t imagine him ever having had firearms training. That, and his having left his (loaded) service Glock in a Congressional men’s restroom a few years ago (for which he suffered no consequences), tells me that he should never have been permitted to handle a firearm as part of his job.

    He’s hardly atypical, unfortunately. I worked at FAA Headquarters for 10 years, and although the security people were nice enough, they hardly inspired confidence that we were protected. On one occasion, after badging in though the turnstile, I noticed that someone had taken off his or her gun belt, and left it on the marble wall surrounding the entrance to the underground tunnels. It had the service pistol in its holster, and several magazines in the mag holders. The security people were all clustered around the badge desk, at least 20 feet away. I could have picked up that gun and shot every one of them before they even knew I was there. From that moment on, I felt more vulnerable than protected by them.

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