Armed gunman in CA Post Office

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This just in on MSNBC and FOX NEWS:

Armed gunman in California Post Office, has two hostages, an assault rifle, and a shotgun.


Is it just me, or does it seem like this stuff is getting more and more attention from the media the closer we get to Sept. 2004?
 
And I was going to stop for stamps on the way home too.


I predict more frequent occurence and more coverage of these incidents in the next year.
 
Is it just me, or does it seem like this stuff is getting more and more attention from the media the closer we get to Sept. 2004?
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No, it's not just you. We're going to be hearing about so-called "assault rifles" daily, and the tone is going to turn increasingly hysterical. The national leftist extremist so-called "news" media have made up their alleged "minds" to flog this issue to death.

Ultimately, they're helping us, but there's going to be a lot of screeching and whining to listen to between now and then.
 
Wait a minute...California...Post Office...but...but...I thought...? He's not allowed to do that!

Do I remember to disarm everytime I walk into the Post Office? Sometimes I just plain forget. Oops.

- Gabe
 
Well the media is going to try to screw us any way they can. Now if the gun lobby is smart, this situation is perfect for our cause. A man goes into a federal building, where guns are prohibited, with a gun. NOT ONLY that, but he is in the PRK, where you can't get any assault weapons legally anymore. So not only did the not bringing firearms into the post office law fail, but so did the assault weapons law. So further proof that these laws only stop law abiding citizens from doing anything because criminals by default don't care about the law anyway.

Now I don't know about you guys, but I always leave my Glock in my car when I go into the post office. :rolleyes:
 
Wait a minute...California...Post Office...but...but...I thought...? He's not allowed to do that!
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It's okay, it' Lakeside! :neener:

Lakeside Ca. is notorious for it's redneck lifestyle.

My department is there right now. It looks like the suspect has a shotgun or two. Stay tuned!
 
I'm putting my money on California breaking off at the fault lines and sinking into the Pacific ocean. Maybe that's why they are so against self-defense there. Because they are all dead anyway!!! :neener:
 
Armed gunman in CA Post Office
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At least he had the good sense not to come to our sportsmen's club trustee's meeting tonight. He'd have lasted about 3 seconds before springing numerous leaks!

Better that he stay in California methinks. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
I see alot of posts here having a go at the media, gun laws and/or gun control lobbyists - but I'd be interested to hear what you all think of possible solutions to prevent such incidents from happening in future.
 
I see alot of posts here having a go at the media, gun laws and/or gun control lobbyists - but I'd be interested to hear what you all think of possible solutions to prevent such incidents from happening in future.
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You can't prevent someone from attempting a robbery, hold up, kidnapping and what-not with laws. Even guns can't prevent it... but they can end it. Imagine a world in which every single adult, and every child mature enough, had a gun on their person at all times. It would be like that scene in Robocop. Criminal walks into diner, brandishes shotgun and ask for the money. Twenty pistols are pointed at him an instance later, the diner was full of cops. (How's it feel to be a rocket scientist?)

If everyone were armed so and trained crime would be tiny. If someone walked into a bank with an AK and asked for the cash fifty people would be covering him. I remember an incident right after 9/11. A (crazy) man attempted to get into the cockpit, he was wrestled to the ground by the passengers. If we responded like so to crime then it would be hard for criminals to continue their "trade" for long.

Laws cannot prevent a significant number of such instances from happening, unless you run a police state.
 
In my opinion,

The only action todate that would have stopped the terrorists on 9/11 is the arming of the pilots.

And that the TSA is dragging it's feet and making it much harder than it should.

It almost raises to contempt of congress.

The only way to stop crime, is to get rid of criminals.

Fred
 
Armed gunman in California Post Office, has two hostages, an assault rifle, and a shotgun.
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I see alot of posts here having a go at the media, gun laws and/or gun control lobbyists - but I'd be interested to hear what you all think of possible solutions to prevent such incidents from happening in future.
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He'd have lasted about 3 seconds before springing numerous leaks!
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I'll let you do the math "Dr". :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 
possible solutions to prevent such incidents from happening in future.
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9mm, 10mm, .45ACP are a few good solutions for starters. You can't prevent the incident from starting without a police state that would make Orwell cringe. But you can affect the duration and outcome of the incident rather handily with any of the three aforementioned canned solutions. After a few incident-redirection events, you will start to see the number of incidents decline as incident-initiators start to discover they have better things to do than end up dead without fanfare.

But in California, Post Offices and school zones nationwide, the second option has been removed which leaves only the first: police state.

- Gabe
 
I heard a quick blurb on the radio this morning saying something about (And I may have heard this wrong) how this situation was resolved (without violence I think) this morning when they met the gunman's demands for a 6 pack of Dr. Pepper. <?!> Strange.

brad cook
 
Its a plant. Couldn't have happened because he isn't allowed to do that and those guns are probably illegal. I don't believe it.
 
Quote Chieftan : "The only way to get rid of crime is to get rid of criminals" like bury them UNDER the prison ! Adopt Texas' laws concerning capital punishment nationwide.
 
The only action todate that would have stopped the terrorists on 9/11 is the arming of the pilots.
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Actually, I don't think that arming pilots actually means a great deal. Sure, it'll make some folks feel safer, but what actually ensures safety is that folks (at least air travellers) are no longer of the victim mentality. They're not gonna let a half dozen guys with 1.5" razor blades tell 'em what to do.
 
DrPsycho...

"but I'd be interested to hear what you all think of possible solutions to prevent such incidents from happening in future."

I can give you a great solution in just two words.

Human shields.

Lets take every liberal gun-banner, anti-SA politician, and blissninnie in the world, line them up around every possible criminal target, and have them hold up signs that say;

"WE are Unarmed! Don't attack or rob us!

Please."

That would certainly work, wouldn't it???? :scrutiny:
 
bogie,

Not all folks who are armed are doing so for confidence. Some of us will actually use our side arms to defend what we believe in.

I don't think the arming of pilots is a feel good action. These men are generally men of action. Decisive and used to making decisions under pressure.

I think when the there are enough armed pilots to be a true
deterrent, inspite of the contempt of the TSA, there will be no attempt by any rational person or group to hijack a commercial airliner.

The only attempts will be to blow up the planes. To prevent that and only that will the luggage inspections be effective.

Don't ever underestimate determined men with clear consience and purpose defending their own.

And for Carlos, Yea under in on the side, just so long as they are out of the water and in prison or dead. You got it.

The failure of our justice system is just that. For any number of reasons the Courts have had no problem letting the criminal cancer back among decent folks.

I don't care whether the reason is poison fruit or the preverted belief that cultural or racial differences or youth are reasons to allow these vermin to feed on honest folks.

If these Judges believed in justice instead of activism we would have a much better society for all members.

Good luck, Get hits.

Fred
 
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