AJ-
I believe you have correctly stated the important point: this attack was the lashing out of someone who had been taught to consider himself a victim. In that context, I doubt that his suicide was due to realization of guilt or wrongdoing. I think it was another 'act of power' inasmuch as any other choice would have resulted in his arrest and made him a victim in fact (as opposed to 'in his own mind'). There is also the datum that prior to shooting the police he shot and wounded an ex-girlfriend.

All of these actions add up to a man taking power into his own hands for a last desperate act of defiance. For a few hours, he did not feel himself to be a victim.

We have gotten to a very bad place.

Jan

it's like "driving while black" -- these guys were
"policing while white." -- j

And there is generally an implication of a 'ritualistic manner'.

Jan

Thank you for a laugh in the middle of dire-land.

Jan

a precursor to martial law - the purpose for all of O's actions and decisions. It was only a matter of time before one faction, group, popped.

shooter posted "2 for 1" before the deed. . we are
looking at an awful opportunity for crazies....... -- j

"Reason ends where a gun begins". Rather obviously, we are not dealing with rational people here. And unfortunately, there are many more waiting to crawl out of the woodwork.

You miss the point...the man considered himself a victim of because of O, Holder, Sharpton, De Blasio,and jesse Jackass..Media certainly helped reinforce and cultivate this feeling, stoking anger.

Islam was the tipping point, justifying and encouraging his murderous thoughts and assisting in putting those thoughts to work. I suspect that the murderer realized what he did after reality set in and killed himself.

FACT: prior to murdering the policemen he'd posted passages from the quran online.

Again I ask, coincidence? Hardly...its a pattern.

Watch New York cops turn their backs on Big Bird Mayor de Balsio. I learned watching Fox last night that the mayor has "Big Bird" for a nickname. That Al Sharpton kiss-up does have kind of an ungainly stride when he walks.

http://conservativetribune.com/cops-turn...

Reminds me of the sixties and "Kill the pigs!"
The mayor of NY fails to control demonstrations. It's OK to demonstrate but in a city like NY it means someone will die when they block the streets or bridges. There's a life or death ambulance or fire truck rushing to a hospital or fire every few minutes there. Blocking access mean the demonstration is out of control and the mayor and police commissioner are not doing their jobs.

Every single NYPD officer should walk off the job. Let Deblasio and his ilk see how long their ivory towers stand against the rabble

I think maybe you caught what I originally wrote before I decided to edit.
I believe it was Lenin who called people easily manipulated to march in protests or to act out far worse "useful idiots."
That's what I was trying to allude to originally.

Maybe it's time for cops to shrug.

The sense you are making to not is as best to be confusing to speakers of englandus-language abilities as which of to be are we... or not. When we did to have planning to... um... er...

Damnit, I got stuck on a double reversal of tenses... sorry. And it was going so well...

That is a definite possibility. :)

There is no mechanism in NYC to recall a politician.

This terrible act has set race relations back 200 years.

People better calm down, or this is going to get very ugly.

More gun control will clearly help, since the rules in place presently were obviously followed.

At least the NY Post article correctly refers to the assailant's gun as a "semi-automatic".

"Useless idiot punks" is more like it!

Just like the Palestinians celebrating after 9/11, these "people" are thrilled. It's time we recognize that America today has a separate culture within that truly hates America.

No question that the idiots who voted for the Golfer-in-Chief are the same idiots who voted
for DisGusting DeBlasio. Absolutely heart-wrenching.

Ah, you're giving too much credit to random and incoherent ramblings by inferring that there is a thought behind them.

all of men who go into the streets should request desk jobs. and if they can't get one they should take early retirement. I believe that this goes much higher than the asshole major. let all of the people who voted for him start protecting them selves which means they will have no choice but to buy GUNS.