XPost: alt.law-enforcement, alt.true-crime, alt.thebird.copwatch   
   From: rrufiange@cfl.rr.com   
      
   "Lt. John Hadily"  wrote in message   
   news:d1a30c54.0311191633.4116356@posting.google.com...   
      
   Can I call you Gramps?   
      
   A firearm is all fine and dandy when it's drawn.  Until this officer could   
   ready his weapon, he was at the MERCY of this knife-wielding maniac.   
      
   Agreed, he did the deed when it came down to it, but making assinine   
   assumptions as to the combat usefulness of any weapon opposed to another, is   
   unnecessary.   
      
   One is a ranged weapon, the other is not.  Care to compare an MP5 to a red   
   plastic dummy gun next?   
      
   I don't want this to become a "gun" thread, but frankly, anyone who   
   belittles the function of ANY lethal weapon in favor of another, is just   
   plain retarded, "Junior".   
      
   Is the LT in your name supposed to make me think you know something?   
      
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