More feckless PC "leaders"

As the dust settles from the Binghamton shooting, I found this story to be quite interesting. Notice how the prosecutor and medical examiners, all city or county employees, immediately begin to set the stage for the wrongful death lawsuits that families of the slain will surely bring against the town of Binghamton. 

The cops on scene had no way of knowing how badly anyone was hurt inside that building and for some lawyer to say they aaaaall would have died anyway is pure bullshit.  No ME in a cold morgue can say how long someone will fight for life.

I worked a homicide back in '85 where a 100#, healthy Korean woman was stabbed seventeen times by an angry ex-lover.  The crime scene was horribly bloody and initially we thought she had fought her attacker. Evidence showed later that the blood spatters and patterns all over that bedroom were from her twisting and writhing there on the floor, fighting desperately for her life.  Medics who made it to the scene and tried to stabilize her there said they'd never seen so small a person fight so hard for her life with so little blood left in her body. They felt they could have saved her had they arrived sooner.

It was the sworn duty of those Binghamton cops to protect the people who were in danger inside that building, not stand around opining that everyone inside was already dead, so why bother going inside.  In my opinion, this is another case of political correctness getting someone, a lot of someones, killed. 

I am sure those cops would have stormed that building and bravely taken that shooter down... if they'd been lead from the front by their Chief who, by his own words, arrived on scene less than three minutes after the initial 911 call.  And then did nothing.

He didn't know how many people were inside. 

He didn't know how many were wounded or the seriousness of those wounds. 

He didn't know how many shooters there were nor what weapons they had or had used.

But it was most certainly his job to go in and find out to keep the loss of innocent life to an absolute minimum by way of proactive, aggressive police work. But I think something was there in the back of his mind that scared him into waiting when he should have lead courageously.

But, Undaunted, they were all dead inside.  There was no point in him and his troops going on active shooter response.

I'll say it again: he didn't know they were all dead.

Following a soon-explained nexus, here we can read about how PC crap may have had something to do with the deaths of three Pittsburg cops.  How so?

Paraphrasing the story: With one AK47 and two pistols, the shooter kept police hiding behind cover for four hours while their brother officers were left bleeding to death nearby, on-scene police leadership unwilling to try to reach them.  More than 100 rounds were fired by the SWAT teams and the shooter.

WTF?  One AK47 and two pistols?  Just how many freakin' automatic weapons and pistols did the cops have?  And with all those cops there, only 100 rounds were fired?

What. The. Fuck. Is. That?

Every cop there with a pair should have fired at least 100 rounds into the house where this POS was hiding.  As he kept his head down so's not to get it shot off, a couple cops could have run up and grabbed their comrades and dragged them to safety and waiting medical aid.  You know why PPD could have done it and should have done it?  Because that's what our soldiers do every day. When there are wounded who need evac, some of the guys lay down suppressive fire, lots of bullets fired all at once and for an extended period of time,  while a couple others in the squad rush out and drag the wounded warrior out of the line of fire.

Why didn't this get done here? 

First, there may have been officer safety concerns: they didn't want any cops to be shot by friendly fire as they rescued the wounded.  So they did nothing.  But the rescuers could have ducked a little as they approached and then dragged out those now-dead officers.

Second; because PD leadership is afraid of the media singing that tired old song about bad-ass, aggressive, over-reacting cops and how they shot the shit out of a perfectly peaceful neighborhood in order to arrest one measly misunderstood yoot who'd just had a bad day and lost his job. So, because of cowardly, PC leadership, three more fine police officers died. 

Get it?

As if that's not sad enough, we can all see here that VaTech doesn't get it yet.  Nobody brings to pass peace by studying non-violence nor by setting up some dopey Center for Peace Studies and Violence Prevention anywhere there are humans. 

I got a clue for you, Mr. Mark McNamee: human bad-guys only understand one thing and that's aggressive, brutal force.  They will always try to use it on those they see as easy prey... unless that prey is demonstrably capable and willing to use aggressive, brutal force to preempt any attack, a/o to play catch-up for any attack that a bad-guy might get lucky enough to pull off successfully.

"It was an opportunity for something new and different and hopeful to emerge," said provost Mark McNamee.  Why didn't you just say, I'm a pussy and anyone can come and kick my ass any time they want and terrorize and hurt my family and any student at VaTech because I'm such a coward, I'll just let you do it.

There.  I said it for him.

The aforementioned nexus?

Cops are great.  God bless them and protect them.  But for different reasons, they can't or won't always respond in a way that saves the most lives. Too many people in leadership positions in this country have no appreciation for the fact that we're at war ~ against terrorists and gang-bangers, losers and loners ~ and all the rest of the riff-raff.  They think we're all just learning to adjust to new challenges in inter-personal relationships and the way to peace and safety is to take one more class, get one more line on the old resume' showing you're staying ahead of the power curve on the subject of abnormal psychology.

Bullshit.

You want peace?  You gotta beat a little ass now and then.  Period.

So, since it's not going to get any better, you need to take responsibility for your own safety and that of those you love.

You.

And to cop leadership: man up.  We're tired of your lame-ass excuses.

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Binghamton will be replayed, discussed, and mentioned for years to come whenever anyone says we should be disarmed and let the police protect us. The police won't do it. They will write the reports and take the pictures and hunt down the man who did it. But they will not protect you personally. Only you are responsible for your own safety. Either take action or die.