- Banned
- #681
Again, this is just their being upset their insurrection was such a laughable failure.If not for the death of a human being, this Ashli B. thread would be comedy gold. And a lesson in intentional obtuseness, I suppose.
The horse has been beaten to jelly.....yet we still have mokes who come on here and repeat and repeat the same old conspiratorial barracks-room lawyering. They KNOW when police can and cannot shoot.....and they could not have shot in this case. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Let's do a bit of a drive-by shooting at some previous posts above:
Ah, so they weighed her, measured her.....hell, even knew the figure suddenly thrust into the opening in a battered-barrier shrouded in some kind of figure concealing shroud.....was a woman? An unarmed woman? A woman who did not have a suicide-vest, a Glock 17 under that shroud?How violent can a 5'2 110lb unarmed woman be? Can these capital police not handle this without resorting to shooting her?
Who knew?
Answer: Not the cop.
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Ummmm, really now we have a view that the cop should have shot into the marble floor to warn Ashli. Really? In a corridor packed with people we have the suggestion that a bullet should be ricocheted off the floor so that rioters would know that having a gun pointed at 'em was serious. Without a shot, it wasn't serious?And no, Ashli had no part in battering doors or windows.
We hear no warning from the cop who shot, but the gun was pointed for a long time and people were pointing out the gun.
But a warning is where you shoot into the floor or something.
Ahsli would be alive today, if only.
I'm thinking, that suggestion may be from someone who knows very very little about firearms.
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You can shoot someone breaking into your home, but not your car, and certainly not a public building like the House Lobby.
Well, Congress is kinda sorta important to America. But, if folks can't be shot there for violently breaking down barriers despite warnings and pointed guns.....well, so too, the Oval Office, or the Court Chamber at the Supreme Court? Or the Pentagon? Or the Gem Room at the Smithsonian?
Or Fort Knox?
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*ps.....outta curiosity, to any real LEO's who are lurking on this forum, lemme ask: If you are in your parked car and someone is battering and breaking the window, while hollering angry epithets at you, and then busting out the window and thrusting themselves into the car interior, despite your screeching to cease, to get out, to leave you alone.......well, could you shoot 'em?
Or do you have to shoot a warning shot through the roof first?
Thanks, in advance.
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My opinion, FWIW:
Ashli B. got caught up in the world of rampant conspiracies and white grievance that is the world of QAnon. Her social media footprints show clear indications of her commitment to those fantasies. She was there, right at hand, part of the tip of the spear at that doorway. She saw, heard, and could feel the battering down of this barrier. She was part of it, even if she didn't swing a club or a helmet to do the battering. She had the clear and obvious choice to leave when she saw the breaking and entering, instead she was loudly shouting at the police behind the barrier. The barrier broke, she suddenly jumped or was thrust into the opening despite the warnings not to. Despite the clear and obvious aimed firearm.
She entered. She died. Foolishly and regrettably. And that's on her.
All the claims of her being murdered are the silly, ridicule worthy nonsense of the conspiratorial jackassery typified by QAnon's ill-informed, ill-educated, ill-motivated nut jobs that believe in it.
Other than that, I'm pretty neutral on Q.