OldTurtle
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Yotesackbuster, I agree with your viewpoint 100%... but,
Quote:It was good eneough for the black panthers in Oakland back in the 60's Its good enough for us now
I was patrolling on the downtown streets of Kansas City MO when the Black Panthers were openly carrying weapons on the streets and I can tell you first hand, it really made a lot of us extremely nervous, even though the ones carrying them were legally doing so...(No conviction records, within State Law, etc)..
The potential for one of them to inadvertently point one and receive what would have been deemed "Defensive" fire from an officer would have sparked a whole different set of problems than what we were normally facing...And believe me, they pushed the point every chance they got...
You would have had to have been 'on the streets' following the Watts Riot in LA... All the larger cities were tinderboxes, just waiting for a match of any kind...we were all really jumpy.. The 1968 National Welfare Demonstrations sparked riots where the patrol cars were drawing sniper type fire from the fire escapes of the various buildings...The SDS/Weatherman factions were burning ROTC buildings on various college campuses...
Quote:It was good eneough for the black panthers in Oakland back in the 60's Its good enough for us now
I was patrolling on the downtown streets of Kansas City MO when the Black Panthers were openly carrying weapons on the streets and I can tell you first hand, it really made a lot of us extremely nervous, even though the ones carrying them were legally doing so...(No conviction records, within State Law, etc)..
The potential for one of them to inadvertently point one and receive what would have been deemed "Defensive" fire from an officer would have sparked a whole different set of problems than what we were normally facing...And believe me, they pushed the point every chance they got...
You would have had to have been 'on the streets' following the Watts Riot in LA... All the larger cities were tinderboxes, just waiting for a match of any kind...we were all really jumpy.. The 1968 National Welfare Demonstrations sparked riots where the patrol cars were drawing sniper type fire from the fire escapes of the various buildings...The SDS/Weatherman factions were burning ROTC buildings on various college campuses...