Impact of Cleveland airport police shooting?

[El Tejon]

Open for discussion:

Anyone have any opinion as to what impact that airport police shooting might have on the general public and the RKBA?

Does it show that the police are not infallible and that government cannot protect anyone, let alone themselves?

Or, does it mean that "guns bad, baaaahhhh"?

How do we in the RKBA movement act upon this incident?

 

[Deanimator]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer will call for more gun control.

If it applied strictly to the Cleveland Police Department, I'd be inclined to agree.

 

[SolaScriptura139]

+1 Deanimator on the Plain Dealer

This situation does not surprise me from Cleveland. I spent a week in Cleveland and every day on the news a new person was shot to death.

 

[grimjaw]

Lovely. I was going to fly into Cleveland next week with some pieces for the range south of Cleveland. Have to reevaluate now.

jmm

 

[Manedwolf]

If people were logical, it would just bring about a call for police to have BETTER RETENTION HOLSTERS, if suspects are able to so easily get hold of the officers' guns.

It's 2006. We can do better than the old woven Safariland black ones, unsnapped.

 

[RealGun]

I lived in Cleveland for 10 years and used the airport many times. It is a first class airport. All this means to me is that airport security better wear vests, if they don't already. Overreacting to one incident is how we get gun control and other stupid stuff that hurts the law abiding and throws a lot of money at it, pretending to fix the problem.

Bad neighborhoods are easy to avoid. The suburban crime I remember or experienced was related to theft, most likely to raise drug money, usually young white kids. Cleveland has a very good police presence. All I did was be careful about the inner city fringes at night. The business district and sports complex were no problem. Wait 30 seconds and you'll see a police cruiser.

There are a lot of wealthy people in Cleveland, mostly around it, and they don't put up with chaos.

 

[foghornl]

The "Security Officer" is a Cleveland PD (Sgt, IIRC) Officer.

He was NOT wearing his vest. According to spokesman Martin Flask (Don't remember his office name, but is pretty high up in Cleveland, like city Law Director, perhaps?) bullet-resistant vest wear is NOT OPTIONAL. YOU WEAR EVERY DAY.

+5 on remarks about the Cleveland Plain Dealer fishwrap...ahhhhh newspaper. It is such a liberal leftist rag, it makes Pravda look downright conservative.

Plain Dealer doesn't publish Listed Sex Offenders...something about their right to privacy, but DOES publish the CCW License Holder's names,ages and county of residence "Public has a right to know who is armed"

 

[jazurell]

Cleveland AP is very safe....one nut case takes a weapon from an officer and shoots another officer who isn't wearing his required vest and half the world goes crazy....On incident in the last 40 years of which I'm aware since moving to NE Ohio....not a lot to be alarmed about, nor change your route/plans....IMHO

 

[Deanimator]

If you're thinking about coming to NE Ohio, don't let this deter you.

I'm from Chicago. Compared to that hell hole, NE Ohio, Cleveland included, is Lake Woebegone. I've never been anywhere in Cleveland that actually frightened me. Some of the best ranges in the country are here or an hour away.