And it is patently obvious to anyone paying attention. However, those of us who have been, have also been called paranoid, crazy, laughable. Well, everybody will be crying soon.

Unreal. And this guy wanted a car and firearm. He was clearly in over his head on a bicycle.

Lol!!

They do hurt people. By his reasoning, the gov't should control your diet and exercise too. They should limit needless trips that expose you to risk of accident.

Alcohol should be one of the first on his death-penalty list since the lethal dose isn't much higher than the recreational dose and b/c the withdrawal itself can be fatal.

Even if you get Ativan during every withdrawal episode, the constant abuse can kill you. I watched to people close to me die slowly this way.

It's horrible, but turning over responsibility to the gov't is not the answer.

That's like the stupid arguments people make that would make gun manufacturers liable for crimes committed with a gun. That's like saying sue a car manufacturer when a person has an accident. What happened to personal responsibility? Ugh!

Great article. I liked the story mode of telling it.

It reminds me of growing up in a little town in NE Oklahoma as a kid. Back then, teenagers came to town and cruised up and down main streets on Fri and Sat nights. Some city father got concerned about the traffic in our 10 or 12 blocks of Main St. and decided that we needed a city constable. After a couple of months of him standing in the middle of Main, blowing a whistle and trying to get the kids to stop, he came to the city council and wanted a police car and a pistol. The kids just weren't giving him any respect. The request was put off till the next meeting.

Frustrated, he came out on Main early Fri. with a lasso and started chasing kids on bicycles. He finally spotted one he could get close enough to and roped him as he rode by, jerking him off the back of the bike, Chipped his tail bone. I know, I was that kid.

The city decided they didn't really need a constable.

It's tremendously different and atrocious now, but i think it's much the same mentality and problem, just on steroids.

I posted a story about that a few days ago. The militarization of America's police forces by John Silveira
Read more at http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/rockymou...

It's worse than scary. i just read something yesterday that this last year, there were 5,000 (?) people injured in police chases and something like 500 killed. Can't remember the number of chases.

But I can't imagine that many were bank robbers or murderers.

I'm still trying to find out how many have been killed in SWAT warrant raids in the middle of the night.

Yes. Scarey isn't it. I have had a few discussions with the cops in this area. Some get it, some are raging alpha hotels. Once when talking with the Under Sheriff (now Sheriff) I accused a couple of his deputies with misfeasance. We now clearly understand each other.

Chilling! I had a discussion with a new cop in my little town last week. We started talking about legalizing drugs and it went downhill from there. He thinks that all drugs should be illegal, and so should alcohol and tobacco because they 'hurt people'. I explained that they had already tried to make alcohol illegal and it didn't work, and that you can't legislate morality. His solution is that the makers should all get the death penalty. What is WRONG with people!!!

And somebody gave that guy a license to carry a gun 24 hours a day, and use it at his discretion?