Lehi, UT cop wounded, Suspect fatally shot in bizarre shootout.

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Not only just 11 comments, most of them are pro gun. One guy even posted a really nice comparison regarding the police and military having guns, and law abiding citizens with them too.

Seriously, the "only police and military should have guns" argument is getting kind of old, just like the "think of the children argument". Saying "only the police and military should have them" is a precursor and encouragement to tyranny.
 
Not good when a police officer is shot and hopefully he makes a full recovery.

Not to get going on a caliber war, but the article says he was shot twice in the head with a .38 and was then rushed into surgery to remove fragments. They also say they expect a full recovery.

Kind of reaffirms to me that I want to keep carrying something that starts with .4 and ends with a 5 ACP. Placement is the key, but I have read way to many stories of people shot with .22, .32. .38. and 9mm in the HEAD and lived to tell about it.

JMO

Good luck to the officer.
 
Thats why at the officers discretion he should be allowed to order people out of the car instead of walking up to the door
 
Veteran Lehi police captain wounded, suspect killed in shootout
By Nate Carlisle
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 06/23/2008 03:00:46 PM MDT

Updated: 2:24 AM- LEHI -- A Lehi police officer is in critical condition and a woman suspect is dead after an exchange of gunfire this morning.
Lehi Police Sgt. Darren Paul says police were called by someone at a gas station in downtown Lehi about a suspicious vehicle with a possible impaired driver. Capt. Harold Terry responded and pulled the car, a Honda Accord with a Washington state license plate, over to the side of the road at 1000 E. Main St. shortly before 9 a.m. When the 55-year-old officer -- a 16-year veteran of the Lehi force -- approached the driver, she pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and shot twice, hitting the officer both times in the head.
Two other officers just arriving as backup then returned the gunfire, striking and killing the woman, described as a 34-year-old from Washington state who was attending school in Provo.
Terry was rushed by air ambulance to Valley Regional Medical Center, where he underwent surgery to remove bullet fragments. He is said to be in stable condition. David Mayson, manager of Walkers gas station at 850 E. Main St., said it was one of his employees who called the police. He said the woman came into his station, acting very distracted, and said she wanted to buy gas. When his employee started to run her debit card, the woman changed her mind, Mayson said. She stood around in the gas station for a minute or so, then went outside to her car, he said. The manager later watched surveillance video, which he said shows the woman standing by her car, staring into space. She then got in car and left.
The shooting occurred a short time later, two blocks away, Mayson said.
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Kind of reaffirms to me that I want to keep carrying something that starts with .4 and ends with a 5 ACP. Placement is the key, but I have read way to many stories of people shot with .22, .32. .38. and 9mm in the HEAD and lived to tell about it.
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Sometimes you just get lucky (that is, the person who gets shot).

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