hell in Dallas this week Dallas police shot a man with a known mental condition for brandishing a knife

I hope they at least billed him for the time and effort of them saving his life. Make him pay in some way.

It's not at all uncommon for people with dementia to act irrationally with their guns. The paranoid hostility is a common indicator.

a background check to buy even more guns.

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Here in lies your problem.

This guy can walk around public streets drunk with a rifle and they return the weapon to him the very next day, Adam Kokesh and Alex Jones can incite people to kill cops and its called free speech, Cliven Bundy can amass a private army to post guns at law enforcement, set up checkpoints and harass the media, One of the Las Vegas shooters (a convicted Felon) could openly walk around Bundy ranch with a gun all the while law enforcement sat on their hands and did nothing.

Can you guess what these privileged people have in common?

I was thinking the same thing when I watched the video.

Oddly enough,Kalamazoo has a racial profiling problem too.


http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2012/10/citizens_voice_concerns_with_k.html

And Black Panthers were hunted down and killed. I SEE a big difference.

starts shooting.

I'd say he falls under the "brandishing weapon" rule.

pointing it at anyone.

screaming about the coming revolution while refusing to give his name with a young,black guy doing the same.How long would the young,black guy live?

The cops would have been afraid for the lives and the gun crowd would be cheering.

since he's nowhere near being "well regulated" enough to join a state militia, if we still had them.

I'm so sick of gun loons getting their way on everything. I'm sick of being a little afraid all the time because bullets will pass through my walls almost like they're not there (and my tail light was cracked by a drunken jackass firing his gun down the block). I'm so terribly sick of seeing children killing each other because some loon didn't feel safe unless he had a loaded gun with the safety off lying around where he (and the kids) could grab it at any time.

I'm happy to say the drunken jackass has spent some jail time and isn't back yet. I'm sad to say that with such lax enforcement of gun crime that he'll probably get his guns back, get a snootful, and resume his career of getting drunk and firing his gun down the street.

a homeless man with an unopened pocketknife, or they'd have shot him...

I have a hard time understanding why the police department didn't refer this to the DA

Sounds like the city/county needs a new DA.

Lots of mishandling of the situation by the cops, too.

-Laelth