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**escolubtessen** · 01-25-2011, 12:34 PM

I watched the incident in St. Petersburg unfold yesterday on the local news. It's clear to me that the shooter, a career felon whom police and federal marshals had been tracking for weeks, was not going to be taken without a fight. He died, but not without killing two police officers and wounding a federal marshal. Was this guy engaged in some kind of war on the police? No, I don't think so. I think he was a violent individual determined not to go back to jail. Trapped in a house, surrounded by dozens of police officers who were determined to arrest him, he had a gun and he used it.

What we have is a country where it is way too easy for criminals and crazy people to get guns.

01-25-2011, 12:34 PM	#3
escolubtessen Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 424 Senior Member	I watched the incident in St. Petersburg unfold yesterday on the local news. It's clear to me that the shooter, a career felon whom police and federal marshals had been tracking for weeks, was not going to be taken without a fight. He died, but not without killing two police officers and wounding a federal marshal. Was this guy engaged in some kind of war on the police? No, I don't think so. I think he was a violent individual determined not to go back to jail. Trapped in a house, surrounded by dozens of police officers who were determined to arrest him, he had a gun and he used it. What we have is a country where it is way too easy for criminals and crazy people to get guns.
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