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A thread about when it's okay for cops to shoot people

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Also, from the video, it looks like he wasn't more than 30' away from another pylon in the bridge the rock throwers were hiding under. He could have been there in a few seconds. So for those people saying there was no immediate cover, there was.

    He would have had to drag his unrestrained perp with him, who was trying to escape. If the officer had immediately protected himself first and foremost and lost the perp, he would have completely been in dereliction of duty.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Also, from the video, it looks like he wasn't more than 30' away from another pylon in the bridge the rock throwers were hiding under. He could have been there in a few seconds. So for those people saying there was no immediate cover, there was.

    Legally, he was justified in the shooting as the kids were threatening to injure him. Three or four teenagers at sixty feet barely qualifies as a threat, but technically it does qualify. I think it was a seriously bad judgment call on the agent's part to respond with deadly force to such a minimal threat, but it was his to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls this guy makes in the field, they take away his gun and put him in a desk job somewhere.

    I think it was seriously bad judgment for the teenagers to throw rocks at a law enforcement officer. Or any person with a gun, for that matter. But hey, it was theirs to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls Border Patrol agents make in the field, Mexican teenagers will not throw fucking rocks at our federal agents. That'd be peachy.
    Do rocks get more dangerous after five minutes? I mean, he could have miraculously managed to avoid injury for a while before deciding he was in danger, but that raises the question of why it took him so long to decide and why said danger never appeared. If I claimed to have been a target of snipers in Bosnia, yet was shown calmly walking across an exposed area without any injury whatsoever, people are going to say that I wan full of shit.

    The danger of each rock thrown remains the same, but yes the danger posed to the officer increases with each rock thrown...right? Pretty sure there'd be an integral involved in there somewhere, and that eventually the probability of serious injury (given enough rocks thrown) would approach 1.

    EDIT: Assuming the probability of any given rock causing serious injury is non-zero, which you seem willing to accept. Maybe you're not.

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  • PotatoNinjaPotatoNinja Fake Gamer Goat Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Also, from the video, it looks like he wasn't more than 30' away from another pylon in the bridge the rock throwers were hiding under. He could have been there in a few seconds. So for those people saying there was no immediate cover, there was.

    Legally, he was justified in the shooting as the kids were threatening to injure him. Three or four teenagers at sixty feet barely qualifies as a threat, but technically it does qualify. I think it was a seriously bad judgment call on the agent's part to respond with deadly force to such a minimal threat, but it was his to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls this guy makes in the field, they take away his gun and put him in a desk job somewhere.

    I think it was seriously bad judgment for the teenagers to throw rocks at a law enforcement officer. Or any person with a gun, for that matter. But hey, it was theirs to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls Border Patrol agents make in the field, Mexican teenagers will not throw fucking rocks at our federal agents. That'd be peachy.

    Regardless of whether the rocks were a lethal threat or not, I can't imagine this scenario in any way making Border Patrol Agents' lives any easier. The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    I dunno. Maybe you should come over and we'll whip big rocks at you, and you can tell us how threatened you feel.

    Does he get to point a loaded gun at you in response? We could make a D&D thread about what happens, I'd totally be on the side of "Atomic Ross didn't deserve to get shot!"

    I'm pretty sure Scalfin is on the "the cop didn't have to shoot him!" side. So no, no gun for Scalfy. He can, however, drag a resistant and unrestrained suspect 30 feet to some cover if he'd like to while we keep whipping the rocks at him.

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  • PotatoNinjaPotatoNinja Fake Gamer Goat Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    I dunno. Maybe you should come over and we'll whip big rocks at you, and you can tell us how threatened you feel.

    Does he get to point a loaded gun at you in response? We could make a D&D thread about what happens, I'd totally be on the side of "Atomic Ross didn't deserve to get shot!"

    I'm pretty sure Scalfin is on the "the cop didn't have to shoot him!" side. So no, no gun for Scalfy. He can, however, drag a resistant and unrestrained suspect 30 feet to some cover if he'd like to while we keep whipping the rocks at him.

    Do I get to shoot you? I'd yell at you first, so it would be within my rules of engagement.

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  • NotYouNotYou Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Also, from the video, it looks like he wasn't more than 30' away from another pylon in the bridge the rock throwers were hiding under. He could have been there in a few seconds. So for those people saying there was no immediate cover, there was.

    Legally, he was justified in the shooting as the kids were threatening to injure him. Three or four teenagers at sixty feet barely qualifies as a threat, but technically it does qualify. I think it was a seriously bad judgment call on the agent's part to respond with deadly force to such a minimal threat, but it was his to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls this guy makes in the field, they take away his gun and put him in a desk job somewhere.

    I think it was seriously bad judgment for the teenagers to throw rocks at a law enforcement officer. Or any person with a gun, for that matter. But hey, it was theirs to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls Border Patrol agents make in the field, Mexican teenagers will not throw fucking rocks at our federal agents. That'd be peachy.

    Regardless of whether the rocks were a lethal threat or not, I can't imagine this scenario in any way making Border Patrol Agents' lives any easier. The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    Shoot more of them. They'll figure it out eventually.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    NotYou wrote: »
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

    Ever?

    Want to go down this road?

    EDIT: Also, unless you're the one volunteering to get hit in the face with rocks by little kids (or shot by little kids, or blown up by little kids), you might want to consider just not posting any more on the subject.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    No, it's rather been, "How dare they shoot our criminals when they attack American police!"

    Charming as always, Mexico. What a shithole.

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  • PotatoNinjaPotatoNinja Fake Gamer Goat Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls Border Patrol agents make in the field, Mexican teenagers will not throw fucking rocks at our federal agents. That'd be peachy.

    Regardless of whether the rocks were a lethal threat or not, I can't imagine this scenario in any way making Border Patrol Agents' lives any easier. The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    Shoot more of them. They'll figure it out eventually.

    I think this more or less summarizes the entire thread, and I'll let your final response stand alone without commentary, it does not justify a rebuttal.

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  • HachfaceHachface Not the Minister Farrakhan you're thinking of Dammit, Shepard!Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    No, it's rather been, "How dare they shoot our criminals when they attack American police!"

    Charming as always, Mexico. What a shithole.

    Being aggressively partisan is just what countries do when it comes to any issue that involves their sovereignty in any way.

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  • The Big LevinskyThe Big Levinsky Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Also, from the video, it looks like he wasn't more than 30' away from another pylon in the bridge the rock throwers were hiding under. He could have been there in a few seconds. So for those people saying there was no immediate cover, there was.

    Legally, he was justified in the shooting as the kids were threatening to injure him. Three or four teenagers at sixty feet barely qualifies as a threat, but technically it does qualify. I think it was a seriously bad judgment call on the agent's part to respond with deadly force to such a minimal threat, but it was his to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls this guy makes in the field, they take away his gun and put him in a desk job somewhere.

    I think it was seriously bad judgment for the teenagers to throw rocks at a law enforcement officer. Or any person with a gun, for that matter. But hey, it was theirs to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls Border Patrol agents make in the field, Mexican teenagers will not throw fucking rocks at our federal agents. That'd be peachy.

    Was that a rebuttal? My view is that the Border Patrol agent made a bad call. You're supposed to give your reasons why the agent made a good judgment call given the minimal threat the kid or kids who were throwing rocks represented. All you said are that teenagers are stupid. That's nothing new. I think the Agent also made a dumb call. That is new because Border Patrol agents are supposed to, on average, not make bad calls like this.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    You know, my best friend had rocks thrown at him in Iraq. It kind of scares me that if it were a few of you in his position, dozens of stupid angry children would be lying face down to a barrage of machinegun fire rather than firing warning shots into the air which effectively disperse most such crowds

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    I'm usually pretty progressive when it comes to our stance on immigration enforcement (including border enforcement). I also like to think I have a pretty healthy skepticism when it comes to police, particularly regarding uses of force. I mean, feel free to go through my posting history on the subject(s) and suggest otherwise, I'd be interested.

    But seriously, I think there are some people here who just have a knee-jerk reaction to things like this. Whether it's the use of force itself, the age of the target, or the idea that sometimes force used in response to force isn't (or can't be) proportional...they just wouldn't accept this situation given any set of circumstances, except maybe the kid actually having a gun.

    Even then, they might want the kid to shoot first.

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  • ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Also, great use of logic with the rocks bit. "He held his hand out to me. Hands can cause injury." "He sneezed toward me. Sneezes can spread fatal disease." It's almost as precious as your use of the slipper slope argument to show that any chance of injury justifies shooting somebody in your mind.

    Hey, way to equate sneezing with making an active decision to intentionally take an aggressive action unlawfully against another human being that could easily lead to their injury (even serious injury).

    I mean, speaking of great uses of logic.

    Sneezing can cause injury. What level of injury is the officer supposed to allow himself to be subjected to before his use of deadly force is appropriate? Only death? Loss of an eye? Brain damage? Lost tooth? Please, lay it out for me. I want to know just what level of injury somebody is allowed to inflict on an agent in your world before he's allowed to use the most effective means he has to defend himself.

    The fact of the matter is that your argument is equally applicable to rocks and sneezing. That it is ridiculous is the entire point. You said that something can cause injury, so any action involving that thing can cause injury. Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    First, I'd love an explanation of how sneezing is going to cause any serious or permanent injury to another person. I suppose they may have some fatal communicable disease, is that what you're getting at?

    Second, intent matters. When another person is intentionally assaulting me, that's definitely different from a sneeze. At least any sneeze not intentionally aimed at me with the hope of transmitting a fatal communicable disease.

    Third, I thought that any reasonably intelligent human being reading my post would understand that we were talking in the context of one person intentionally assaulting another, not holding a hand out or sneezing. Apparently I was wrong. Well, that or you're....well....yeah.


    EDIT: Oh, and if I determined that a person was intentionally trying to sneeze on me knowing they had a fatal (or just permanent and debilitating) communicable disease? I'd have zero problem shooting them to stop them.

    Oh, so something's only a threat if it's meant as a threat? I'll have to tell that to all the people who let themselves be buried under the false assumption that they died in traffic accidents. Hell, can you even show that throwing the rock was intended to be an attack rather than a show of defiance?

    You argument was that the incident involved x, that x can cause injury, so this incident could cause injury. To put it in formal logic:
    This incident involved a rock
    Some incidents involving rocks cause injury
    Therefor, this incident must have caused injury

    To use the same logic:
    This incident involved a sneeze
    Some incidents involving sneezes impart fatal diseases
    Therefor, this incident must have imparted a fatal disease

    You have completely failed to show that this use of a rock could have caused injury, just like how you complain that I failed to show that a given case of sneezing would impart a fatal disease.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Also, from the video, it looks like he wasn't more than 30' away from another pylon in the bridge the rock throwers were hiding under. He could have been there in a few seconds. So for those people saying there was no immediate cover, there was.

    Legally, he was justified in the shooting as the kids were threatening to injure him. Three or four teenagers at sixty feet barely qualifies as a threat, but technically it does qualify. I think it was a seriously bad judgment call on the agent's part to respond with deadly force to such a minimal threat, but it was his to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls this guy makes in the field, they take away his gun and put him in a desk job somewhere.

    I think it was seriously bad judgment for the teenagers to throw rocks at a law enforcement officer. Or any person with a gun, for that matter. But hey, it was theirs to make.

    I hope, after seeing the sort of judgment calls Border Patrol agents make in the field, Mexican teenagers will not throw fucking rocks at our federal agents. That'd be peachy.

    Regardless of whether the rocks were a lethal threat or not, I can't imagine this scenario in any way making Border Patrol Agents' lives any easier. The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    Shoot more of them. They'll figure it out eventually.

    Wait really?

    That's


    What the fuck is this?

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Do I get to shoot you? I'd yell at you first, so it would be within my rules of engagement.

    Only if you're arguing guns are a reasonable deterrent to thrown rocks.

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  • DizzenDizzen Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    NotYou wrote: »
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

    Yes, thank you for adding so much to the discussion.

    Could someone please PM me if this thread becomes sane and on topic again? Following it in its current state is a bit too much for me.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    You know, my best friend had rocks thrown at him in Iraq. It kind of scares me that if it were a few of you in his position, dozens of stupid angry children would be lying face down to a barrage of machinegun fire rather than firing warning shots into the air which effectively disperse most such crowds

    I found that Iraqi children respond quite quickly to having an M-16 pointed at them. Adults too, obviously.

    Maybe Iraqis are just smarter than Mexicans. I don't know.

    If they kept chucking masonry, though? Yeah, eventually they might get shot. Depends if I started feeling my safety (or that of my fellow soldiers) was threatened.

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  • NotYouNotYou Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    NotYou wrote: »
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

    Ever?

    Want to go down this road?

    EDIT: Also, unless you're the one volunteering to get hit in the face with rocks by little kids (or shot by little kids, or blown up by little kids), you might want to consider just not posting any more on the subject.

    I would rather die than kill a child armed with nothing more than a rock. I am an adult.

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  • nstfnstf __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2010
    Even then, they might want the kid to shoot first.


    No even if the kid shot first you'd hear "but he coulda ran away, could have arrested him, could have taken cover". There is a certain portion of our society that just hates the cops, agents, and the military. It's rather nasty and well... it's part of a certain political spectrum at that. Those people are just out there to die and have no reason to defend themselves, ever, and if they do... off with their head!

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Hachface wrote: »
    The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    No, it's rather been, "How dare they shoot our criminals when they attack American police!"

    Charming as always, Mexico. What a shithole.

    Being aggressively partisan is just what countries do when it comes to any issue that involves their sovereignty in any way.

    I have to imagine that, were the roles reversed, and an American teen was killed after attacking a Mexican soldier, we'd all be going, "What an idiot," not condemning the Mexican border guards.

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  • The Big LevinskyThe Big Levinsky Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    You know, my best friend had rocks thrown at him in Iraq. It kind of scares me that if it were a few of you in his position, dozens of stupid angry children would be lying face down to a barrage of machinegun fire rather than firing warning shots into the air which effectively disperse most such crowds

    I found that Iraqi children respond quite quickly to having an M-16 pointed at them. Adults too, obviously.

    Maybe Iraqis are just smarter than Mexicans. I don't know.

    If they kept chucking masonry, though? Yeah, eventually they might get shot. Depends if I started feeling my safety (or that of my fellow soldiers) was threatened.

    I hope they give you a desk job too.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Hachface wrote: »
    The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    No, it's rather been, "How dare they shoot our criminals when they attack American police!"

    Charming as always, Mexico. What a shithole.

    Being aggressively partisan is just what countries do when it comes to any issue that involves their sovereignty in any way.

    I have to imagine that, were the roles reversed, and an American teen was killed after attacking a Mexican soldier, we'd all be going, "What an idiot," not condemning the Mexican border guards.

    Really?

    This is so fucking naive I'm not even sure how to respond

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Scalfin wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Also, great use of logic with the rocks bit. "He held his hand out to me. Hands can cause injury." "He sneezed toward me. Sneezes can spread fatal disease." It's almost as precious as your use of the slipper slope argument to show that any chance of injury justifies shooting somebody in your mind.

    Hey, way to equate sneezing with making an active decision to intentionally take an aggressive action unlawfully against another human being that could easily lead to their injury (even serious injury).

    I mean, speaking of great uses of logic.

    Sneezing can cause injury. What level of injury is the officer supposed to allow himself to be subjected to before his use of deadly force is appropriate? Only death? Loss of an eye? Brain damage? Lost tooth? Please, lay it out for me. I want to know just what level of injury somebody is allowed to inflict on an agent in your world before he's allowed to use the most effective means he has to defend himself.

    The fact of the matter is that your argument is equally applicable to rocks and sneezing. That it is ridiculous is the entire point. You said that something can cause injury, so any action involving that thing can cause injury. Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    First, I'd love an explanation of how sneezing is going to cause any serious or permanent injury to another person. I suppose they may have some fatal communicable disease, is that what you're getting at?

    Second, intent matters. When another person is intentionally assaulting me, that's definitely different from a sneeze. At least any sneeze not intentionally aimed at me with the hope of transmitting a fatal communicable disease.

    Third, I thought that any reasonably intelligent human being reading my post would understand that we were talking in the context of one person intentionally assaulting another, not holding a hand out or sneezing. Apparently I was wrong. Well, that or you're....well....yeah.


    EDIT: Oh, and if I determined that a person was intentionally trying to sneeze on me knowing they had a fatal (or just permanent and debilitating) communicable disease? I'd have zero problem shooting them to stop them.

    Oh, so something's only a threat if it's meant as a threat? I'll have to tell that to all the people who let themselves be buried under the false assumption that they died in traffic accidents. Hell, can you even show that throwing the rock was intended to be an attack rather than a show of defiance?

    It's an assault either way.
    You argument was that the incident involved x, that x can cause injury, so this incident could cause injury. To put it in formal logic:
    This incident involved a rock
    Some incidents involving rocks cause injury
    Therefor, this incident must have caused injury

    To use the same logic:
    This incident involved a sneeze
    Some incidents involving sneezes impart fatal diseases
    Therefor, this incident must have imparted a fatal disease

    You have completely failed to show that this use of a rock could have caused injury, just like how you complain that I failed to show that a given case of sneezing would impart a fatal disease.

    Wait. I'm missing something with your formal logic here. Simply because some incidents involving rocks cause injury, that wouldn't imply that any incident involving a rock must cause injury.

    I mean, if you're going to be a twat, try and get your argument right.

    EDIT: I mean, if some cats are white, and I own a cat, that doesn't imply that it must be white...right? I've not taken any liberal arts logic classes, but I took plenty on the digital logic side and this doesn't seem to work.

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    NotYou wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    NotYou wrote: »
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

    Ever?

    Want to go down this road?

    EDIT: Also, unless you're the one volunteering to get hit in the face with rocks by little kids (or shot by little kids, or blown up by little kids), you might want to consider just not posting any more on the subject.

    I would rather die than kill a child armed with nothing more than a rock. I am an adult.

    I wouldn't. I am a human being with a sense of self-preservation.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    NotYou wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    NotYou wrote: »
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

    Ever?

    Want to go down this road?

    EDIT: Also, unless you're the one volunteering to get hit in the face with rocks by little kids (or shot by little kids, or blown up by little kids), you might want to consider just not posting any more on the subject.

    I would rather die than kill a child armed with nothing more than a rock. I am an adult.

    What horrible irony it would be if you were killed by a rock thrown by a child.


    And really, 15? 15 ain't a "child." Half the Hispanic 15-year olds I see at work are parents.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Maybe the cop should have thrown rocks back at him?

    Wait that's silly, he was too far away to hit with one

    ... wait

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    You know, my best friend had rocks thrown at him in Iraq. It kind of scares me that if it were a few of you in his position, dozens of stupid angry children would be lying face down to a barrage of machinegun fire rather than firing warning shots into the air which effectively disperse most such crowds

    I found that Iraqi children respond quite quickly to having an M-16 pointed at them. Adults too, obviously.

    Maybe Iraqis are just smarter than Mexicans. I don't know.

    If they kept chucking masonry, though? Yeah, eventually they might get shot. Depends if I started feeling my safety (or that of my fellow soldiers) was threatened.

    I hope they give you a desk job too.

    I hope you never join the military.

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  • HachfaceHachface Not the Minister Farrakhan you're thinking of Dammit, Shepard!Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Hachface wrote: »
    The response so far from Mexico does not seem to be "we totally learned our lesson and won't throw rocks anymore!"

    No, it's rather been, "How dare they shoot our criminals when they attack American police!"

    Charming as always, Mexico. What a shithole.

    Being aggressively partisan is just what countries do when it comes to any issue that involves their sovereignty in any way.

    I have to imagine that, were the roles reversed, and an American teen was killed after attacking a Mexican soldier, we'd all be going, "What an idiot," not condemning the Mexican border guards.

    Ahahahahaha

    Never change, Atomic Ross. Never change.

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  • HachfaceHachface Not the Minister Farrakhan you're thinking of Dammit, Shepard!Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    nstf wrote: »
    Even then, they might want the kid to shoot first.


    No even if the kid shot first you'd hear "but he coulda ran away, could have arrested him, could have taken cover". There is a certain portion of our society that just hates the cops, agents, and the military. It's rather nasty and well... it's part of a certain political spectrum at that. Those people are just out there to die and have no reason to defend themselves, ever, and if they do... off with their head!

    Please stop strawmanning.

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  • override367override367 ALL minions Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    NotYou wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    NotYou wrote: »
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

    Ever?

    Want to go down this road?

    EDIT: Also, unless you're the one volunteering to get hit in the face with rocks by little kids (or shot by little kids, or blown up by little kids), you might want to consider just not posting any more on the subject.

    I would rather die than kill a child armed with nothing more than a rock. I am an adult.

    What horrible irony it would be if you were killed by a rock thrown by a child.


    And really, 15? 15 ain't a "child." Half the Hispanic 15-year olds I see at work are parents.

    Oh I forgot, white people are kids if they're 15, messicans are adults

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  • mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    NotYou wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    NotYou wrote: »
    kid was 14. You don't shoot kids. I don't care if you take a rock to the face, don't shoot little kids.

    Ever?

    Want to go down this road?

    EDIT: Also, unless you're the one volunteering to get hit in the face with rocks by little kids (or shot by little kids, or blown up by little kids), you might want to consider just not posting any more on the subject.

    I would rather die than kill a child armed with nothing more than a rock. I am an adult.

    What horrible irony it would be if you were killed by a rock thrown by a child.


    And really, 15? 15 ain't a "child." Half the Hispanic 15-year olds I see at work are parents.

    Oh I forgot, white people are kids if they're 15, messicans are adults

    Actually, he was only talking about Mexicans in terms of teen pregnancy rates. Which I'd be unsurprised to find that their teen pregnancy rates are higher. His "15 ain't a 'child'" comment was race-neutral.

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  • ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2010
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    I dunno. Maybe you should come over and we'll whip big rocks at you, and you can tell us how threatened you feel.

    Does he get to point a loaded gun at you in response? We could make a D&D thread about what happens, I'd totally be on the side of "Atomic Ross didn't deserve to get shot!"

    I'm pretty sure Scalfin is on the "the cop didn't have to shoot him!" side. So no, no gun for Scalfy. He can, however, drag a resistant and unrestrained suspect 30 feet to some cover if he'd like to while we keep whipping the rocks at him.

    Nice dodge. Now, do you feel that I'd be justified in shooting you if you were throwing rocks from three meters short of the winning shot put at the latest Olympics, or am I only allowed to shoot Hispanics?

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  • nstfnstf __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2010
    Hachface wrote: »
    nstf wrote: »
    Even then, they might want the kid to shoot first.


    No even if the kid shot first you'd hear "but he coulda ran away, could have arrested him, could have taken cover". There is a certain portion of our society that just hates the cops, agents, and the military. It's rather nasty and well... it's part of a certain political spectrum at that. Those people are just out there to die and have no reason to defend themselves, ever, and if they do... off with their head!

    Please stop strawmanning.

    People have made those exact arguments here...

    So no, not a strawman. And since a section of our society has known to value the lives of cops and soldiers less then that of anybody else, it's a concern.

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  • The Big LevinskyThe Big Levinsky Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Also, great use of logic with the rocks bit. "He held his hand out to me. Hands can cause injury." "He sneezed toward me. Sneezes can spread fatal disease." It's almost as precious as your use of the slipper slope argument to show that any chance of injury justifies shooting somebody in your mind.

    Hey, way to equate sneezing with making an active decision to intentionally take an aggressive action unlawfully against another human being that could easily lead to their injury (even serious injury).

    I mean, speaking of great uses of logic.

    Sneezing can cause injury. What level of injury is the officer supposed to allow himself to be subjected to before his use of deadly force is appropriate? Only death? Loss of an eye? Brain damage? Lost tooth? Please, lay it out for me. I want to know just what level of injury somebody is allowed to inflict on an agent in your world before he's allowed to use the most effective means he has to defend himself.

    The fact of the matter is that your argument is equally applicable to rocks and sneezing. That it is ridiculous is the entire point. You said that something can cause injury, so any action involving that thing can cause injury. Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    First, I'd love an explanation of how sneezing is going to cause any serious or permanent injury to another person. I suppose they may have some fatal communicable disease, is that what you're getting at?

    Second, intent matters. When another person is intentionally assaulting me, that's definitely different from a sneeze. At least any sneeze not intentionally aimed at me with the hope of transmitting a fatal communicable disease.

    Third, I thought that any reasonably intelligent human being reading my post would understand that we were talking in the context of one person intentionally assaulting another, not holding a hand out or sneezing. Apparently I was wrong. Well, that or you're....well....yeah.


    EDIT: Oh, and if I determined that a person was intentionally trying to sneeze on me knowing they had a fatal (or just permanent and debilitating) communicable disease? I'd have zero problem shooting them to stop them.

    Oh, so something's only a threat if it's meant as a threat? I'll have to tell that to all the people who let themselves be buried under the false assumption that they died in traffic accidents. Hell, can you even show that throwing the rock was intended to be an attack rather than a show of defiance?

    It's an assault either way.
    You argument was that the incident involved x, that x can cause injury, so this incident could cause injury. To put it in formal logic:
    This incident involved a rock
    Some incidents involving rocks cause injury
    Therefor, this incident must have caused injury

    To use the same logic:
    This incident involved a sneeze
    Some incidents involving sneezes impart fatal diseases
    Therefor, this incident must have imparted a fatal disease

    You have completely failed to show that this use of a rock could have caused injury, just like how you complain that I failed to show that a given case of sneezing would impart a fatal disease.

    Wait. I'm missing something with your formal logic here. Simply because some incidents involving rocks cause injury, that wouldn't imply that any incident involving a rock must cause injury.

    I mean, if you're going to be a twat, try and get your argument right.
    This? This whole thing here? This is pretty dumb. The guy from Customs and Border Protection said the threat had to be immediate. The whole sneezing met by lethal force thing is completely silly and irrelevant

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Oh I forgot, white people are kids if they're 15, messicans are adults

    The point being made was that a child with a rock posed no legitimate threat. Fifteen is hardly the age of a child incapable of physically harming someone, and choosing to frame it that way is intentionally dishonest.

    You, too, are engaging in dishonest debate by purposefully misconstruing my statement.

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  • nstfnstf __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2010
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    I dunno. Maybe you should come over and we'll whip big rocks at you, and you can tell us how threatened you feel.

    Does he get to point a loaded gun at you in response? We could make a D&D thread about what happens, I'd totally be on the side of "Atomic Ross didn't deserve to get shot!"

    I'm pretty sure Scalfin is on the "the cop didn't have to shoot him!" side. So no, no gun for Scalfy. He can, however, drag a resistant and unrestrained suspect 30 feet to some cover if he'd like to while we keep whipping the rocks at him.

    Nice dodge. Now, do you feel that I'd be justified in shooting you if you were throwing rocks from three meters short of the winning shot put at the latest Olympics, or am I only allowed to shoot Hispanics?

    A rock isn't a shot put there boss, it's not even close to the same thing.

    Just like sneezing and holding out a hand isn't a hostile action.

    Try again.

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  • ScalfinScalfin __BANNED USERS regular
    edited June 2010
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    mcdermott wrote: »
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Also, great use of logic with the rocks bit. "He held his hand out to me. Hands can cause injury." "He sneezed toward me. Sneezes can spread fatal disease." It's almost as precious as your use of the slipper slope argument to show that any chance of injury justifies shooting somebody in your mind.

    Hey, way to equate sneezing with making an active decision to intentionally take an aggressive action unlawfully against another human being that could easily lead to their injury (even serious injury).

    I mean, speaking of great uses of logic.

    Sneezing can cause injury. What level of injury is the officer supposed to allow himself to be subjected to before his use of deadly force is appropriate? Only death? Loss of an eye? Brain damage? Lost tooth? Please, lay it out for me. I want to know just what level of injury somebody is allowed to inflict on an agent in your world before he's allowed to use the most effective means he has to defend himself.

    The fact of the matter is that your argument is equally applicable to rocks and sneezing. That it is ridiculous is the entire point. You said that something can cause injury, so any action involving that thing can cause injury. Now, can you show that a 15 year old boy throwing rocks from 60 feet away is in any way, shape, or form a credible threat? You obviously can't, even with the gimme of assuming that the rocks were injuriously large, or you would have already tried.

    First, I'd love an explanation of how sneezing is going to cause any serious or permanent injury to another person. I suppose they may have some fatal communicable disease, is that what you're getting at?

    Second, intent matters. When another person is intentionally assaulting me, that's definitely different from a sneeze. At least any sneeze not intentionally aimed at me with the hope of transmitting a fatal communicable disease.

    Third, I thought that any reasonably intelligent human being reading my post would understand that we were talking in the context of one person intentionally assaulting another, not holding a hand out or sneezing. Apparently I was wrong. Well, that or you're....well....yeah.


    EDIT: Oh, and if I determined that a person was intentionally trying to sneeze on me knowing they had a fatal (or just permanent and debilitating) communicable disease? I'd have zero problem shooting them to stop them.

    Oh, so something's only a threat if it's meant as a threat? I'll have to tell that to all the people who let themselves be buried under the false assumption that they died in traffic accidents. Hell, can you even show that throwing the rock was intended to be an attack rather than a show of defiance?

    It's an assault either way.
    You argument was that the incident involved x, that x can cause injury, so this incident could cause injury. To put it in formal logic:
    This incident involved a rock
    Some incidents involving rocks cause injury
    Therefor, this incident must have caused injury

    To use the same logic:
    This incident involved a sneeze
    Some incidents involving sneezes impart fatal diseases
    Therefor, this incident must have imparted a fatal disease

    You have completely failed to show that this use of a rock could have caused injury, just like how you complain that I failed to show that a given case of sneezing would impart a fatal disease.

    Wait. I'm missing something with your formal logic here. Simply because some incidents involving rocks cause injury, that wouldn't imply that any incident involving a rock must cause injury.

    I mean, if you're going to be a twat, try and get your argument right.

    EDIT: I mean, if some cats are white, and I own a cat, that doesn't imply that it must be white...right? I've not taken any liberal arts logic classes, but I took plenty on the digital logic side and this doesn't seem to work.

    That's the point.

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  • AtomikaAtomika Live fast and get fucked or whatever Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Scalfin wrote: »
    Nice dodge. Now, do you feel that I'd be justified in shooting you if you were throwing rocks from three meters short of the winning shot put at the latest Olympics, or am I only allowed to shoot Hispanics?

    As a former collegiate shot-putter, I have to wonder if you know how little distance that is.

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