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Apparently some nutbar went around Langley BC this morning shooting a number of homeless. No word on how many hurt or weapon used.
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All of this from open source: Super messed up situation. There’s a photo of what looks like an RCMP unmarked SUV with eight bullet holes through the windshield on the driver’s side. Can’t tell if outgoing or incoming, but I do have reliable word that all police are OK. Either way it speaks to a desperate takedown.
Everything I’ve heard so far lines up with shooter targeting homeless. I don’t have anything reliable enough regarding number of victims.
Police confronted and stopped the shooter and he’s “in custody”. It’s not clear yet if he’s “in custody” as a prisoner or as an exhibit.
It’s only 10:30 there. Expect more updates later in the day. Very complex, multiple scenes.
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Some media outlets are reporting that the suspect was shot and killed by police AND is in custody.
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Habemus corpus.
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You can have a body in custody...
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Yeah, I know. But the original article - which has since been updated - made it sound like he was shot and killed (pronounced dead on-scene), then arrested and taken to cells.
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That would make a mess...
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Best to keep em locked up for 48 hours, the T Virus has a flexible germination period.
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Paul Newman (Judge Roy Bean) killed a cowboy for cheating at cards then held a trial and fined him eight dollars. I know I know before the earth cooled.
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The latest news that I could find is three dead including shooter:
Three dead, including suspect, after Langley shootings
Three people are dead, including the suspect, after shootings in Langley early Monday morning. The suspect was shot by police.
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Three dead, including suspect, after Langley shootings
Three people are dead, including the suspect, after shootings in Langley early Monday morning. The suspect was shot by police.
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Props to the responding officer.The latest news that I could find is three dead including shooter:
Three dead, including suspect, after Langley shootings
Three people are dead, including the suspect, after shootings in Langley early Monday morning. The suspect was shot by police.
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The Uvalde debacle has been the NRA's best publicity in decades.
Everyone now thinks the Police are useless.
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There have been a number of incidents that have eroded the publics faith in LE, Uvalde clown show was just the icing.
Rule #1: ABC (Always be Carrying) for you can only count on yourself.
One tends not to get a lot of press when LE shows up quickly and does the job - like the below
The latest news that I could find is three dead including shooter:
Three dead, including suspect, after Langley shootings
Three people are dead, including the suspect, after shootings in Langley early Monday morning. The suspect was shot by police.
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I don't think you're wrong. I think the public, rightly, expects POs to move towards the danger or threat and take personal injury and death as a very real possibility of that employment. And that sacrifice is expected to try and save the victims.
I also think the vast majority of POs are willing to do that.
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It's the classic "nobody needs a gun" .... that is.... "until they really do" and then they wish they had one
That's why the Army has this clever little trick:
They historically have employed DYMs in junior leadership roles. Otherwise known as Dumb Young Men. It takes a special type of idiot to yell "follow me" when SHTF
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It's the classic "nobody needs a gun" .... that is.... "until they really do" and then they wish they had one
That's why the Army has this clever little trick:
They historically have employed DYMs in junior leadership roles. Otherwise known as Dumb Young Men. It takes a special type of idiot to yell "follow me" when SHTF
Some people are the sheepdog, some people are the sheep...
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I know it's a forlorn hope, but with Canada current PAL system, a CCW program under the current ATC's would be quite doable and the quality of successful candidates would be quite high. A number of years ago there was a big push to get the ATC for the protection of life (aka ATC 3) One of the requirement was "acceptable level of training". There was a lot of people writing their CFO's to lay out what that training standard was. The CFO's refused to divulge what they considered acceptable because they knew that a course would be developed and people would meet and exceed that requirement, removing yet another obstacle to the permit. At this point the ATC 3 is a "Illusionary permit" to borrow a phrase from another area of law.
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