Get ready for it... (Read 773 times)

ren

Get ready for it...
« on: July 06, 2025, 09:46:36 AM »
less police officers, less crime prosecution, lax prosecution,
but all legal firearms owners will be at fault in 2026

https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/crimes-on-the-rise-during-independence-day-weekend-on-oahu/article_a71ee36a-65e1-45b8-8f82-a0f71f4b6220.html
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QUIETShooter

Re: Get ready for it...
« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2025, 10:35:50 AM »
The article mentioned some of the guns were not ghost guns but registered guns so they are trying to figure out how "they" go ahold of them.

I fail to see how hard that would be.  Chief Logan, soon to be former chief logan, makes things harder, it seems.

Maybe those guns were the ones left in the toilets by LE officers but was never reported.  You know, the "shhhh....shhhhhh....." clause. ;)
Sometimes you gotta know when to save your bullets.

ren

Re: Get ready for it...
« Reply #2 on: July 06, 2025, 10:46:01 AM »
The article mentioned some of the guns were not ghost guns but registered guns so they are trying to figure out how "they" go ahold of them.

I fail to see how hard that would be.  Chief Logan, soon to be former chief logan, makes things harder, it seems.

Maybe those guns were the ones left in the toilets by LE officers but was never reported.  You know, the "shhhh....shhhhhh....." clause. ;)

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/06/honolulu-prosecutor-2023-hpd-fatal-shooting-in-pearl-city-was-justified/
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RSN172

Re: Get ready for it...
« Reply #3 on: July 06, 2025, 07:44:34 PM »
So according to the article, Taualai had dropped his weapons, was unarmed and wounded and trying to flee when HPD killed him and prosecutors say killing was justified.

If someone breaks into my house with a weapon and I shoot him and he drops his weapon, turns to flee and I shoot him again and he dies, will the DA say it was justified?

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Flapp_Jackson

Re: Get ready for it...
« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2025, 08:20:46 PM »
So according to the article, Taualai had dropped his weapons, was unarmed and wounded and trying to flee when HPD killed him and prosecutors say killing was justified.

If someone breaks into my house with a weapon and I shoot him and he drops his weapon, turns to flee and I shoot him again and he dies, will the DA say it was justified?

Don't let politicians and lawyers tell you what to do in a situation like this.  I agree with the guideline "fire until the threat is stopped."  That's far from the same idea as "shoot to kill."  So, decide what your personal rules of engagement are, and don't worry about what might happen in the aftermath.  You have to survive before anything that might happen afterward deserves worry.  Focus on surviving.  What happens next isn't within your control.
« Last Edit: July 07, 2025, 11:30:21 AM by Flapp_Jackson »
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

RSN172

Re: Get ready for it...
« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2025, 10:53:16 PM »
With the cost of hollow point ammo, I won't shoot an unarmed person who is fleeing.

I'll just let my Rottweilers chase him and play with him for awhile.
Happily living in Puna