Originally Posted by catzmeow";p=&quot

The practical reality of the job is that some people need killing. That sounds harsh, but consider the following:

A good friend of mine was involved in an armed standoff with a suicidal young man who happened to be a gang member. After hours, he was finally able to talk the guy into disarming, and he was promptly checked into an emergency mental health placement.

Fast forward two weeks later. The boy is released from the mental health facility and goes to court where the judge determines him to be a threat to himself and others. He is ordered into secure placement (juvenile prison). But youth corrections case workers countermand the judge's orders and place him in an unsecured group home. The kid stays an hour and goes on the run.

The next time this officer, the same one who disarmed him, sees him is when he's killed two people and wounded two people doing an armed robbery on a small family-owned resturant. The take on the robbery is $17.

Needless to say, the officer was in counseling for quite a while, he actually blamed himself for talking the kid down, even though he did the right thing at the time.

No one should take pleasure in taking someone else's life. But, as the friend of mine who shot an armed gunman who stormed into a library in our area and shot several people once said, "some people just need killing."

The alternative to shooting this person was to allow him to continue shooting other people and he'd already demonstrated his will to do this. IN this instance, the officer who shot the gunman was the one who took it upon himself to do what needed to be done, and I must confess to grim satisfaction that he did his job so well.

I wouldn't go so far as to say that I take pleasure in it, but in a clear-cut instance like this where the guilt is certain, and the officer is protecting the lives of innocents, far better to kill the suspect.

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Originally Posted by The12thMan";p=&quot

From the thread entitled, "Why I love the south...", "I was trying to blow his brains out is what I was trying to do." You could say she was in a micro-warzone. And, I would suggest that most of us enjoyed reading about it. We grew up watching movies in which the bad guy gets it in the end. It is a hoot.

The police go to their job everyday prepared to shoot someone, but without expecting to be forced into it. Soldiers expect to use their weapon. Huge difference.

Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior";p=&quot

That doesnt stop liberals from assuming they are ALL freedom fighters...without a shred of proof either way of course.

Originally Posted by Sadistic-Savior";p=&quot

What is it exactly that leads you to believe that?

Wouldnt those who support a totalitarian regime also have an incentive to take the country back?