Gunman shoots 4 Texas policemen serving warrant

"SAN ANTONIO -- A man with an assault rifle shot four San Antonio policemen entering his house Thursday to serve a search warrant, seriously injuring two of them before surrendering when SWAT officers returned a flash of gunfire, authorities said....charged a 29-year-old former prison inmate with four counts of attempted capital murder. " http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/11/AR2010111106625.html

See? Good fucking thing I'm not a cop...

I'd rather legalize whatever he was trying to sell and send the cops after rapists and child molesters and financial criminals.

I thought he was just another violent bonehead (irony alert...)....

I think all drugs should be legal for personal use and heavily regulated and taxed. Everything.

With treatment centers you can walk into and get a bed RIGHT THEN.

Then we go after the scumbag bankers and the Kochs and the rest of the real criminals.

While blowing up the occasional violent predator for shits and giggles.

Isn't that right, gun people?

Because that is criminal in nature. They should grab people when they are out in the street.

Seems like the NICS check didn't stop this one from getting a gun.

There is no need for this he-man paramilitary bullshit most of the time.

The guy has to go out sometime. Wait for him and then nab him with no fuss.

He wasn't going down without taking somebody with him no matter where they tried to pop him.

Ergo, by all accounts, Mr. Carroll's possession of the firearm in question was already illegal. What laws currently not in existence would have deterred him from, or hampered him in, acquiring the firearm he used? Because it's a safe bet he didn't walk into his local gun shop and buy that "assault rifle" (which, given that this is the WaPo, means any semi-automatic rifle with a detachable magazine).

And hey, how about the killing power of those "assault rifles," huh? Possibly dozens of rounds fired, and zero fatalities. See, the SWAT team is probably wearing Level III body armor, which will stop assault rifle rounds. The cop wounded most badly was struck "beneath his protective armor." Now, if Carroll had been using a bolt-action deer rifle, he might have actually killed someone.

That he did not just walk into WalMart with a $100 and walk out with an assault rifle, no questions asked?

nuff said, unrec.

Do you read this stuff before you post it?

Convicted felon illegally in possession of a firearm.

No points awarded.

N&U

:nuke:

I wonder what a flash of gunfire is?

I suspect they threw in a flash-bang grenade.

not honest citizens.

Thanks. Good work.

http://www.ksat.com/news/25762822/detail.html

"... Carroll has previous drug charges and two murder charges."

As much as a I oppose the war on drugs, seems like this guy might have been well beyond the status of non-violent drug offender.