|
NOTE!
This is a real-time comments system. As such, it's also a
free speech zone within guidelines set forth on the Post
Comments page. Opinions expressed here may or may not
reflect those of KeepAndBearArms staff, members, or
any other living person besides the one who posted them.
Please keep that in mind. We ask that all who post
comments assure that they adhere to our Inclusion
Policy, but there's a bad apple in every
bunch, and we have no control over bigots and
other small-minded people. Thank you. --KeepAndBearArms.com
|
The
Below Comments Relate to this Newslink:
WA: Officer's role reviewed in accidental gun firing
Submitted by:
Bruce W. Krafft
|
There
are no comments
on this story
Post Comments | Read Comments
|
"Seattle police are reviewing the conduct of an off-duty officer who reported earlier this year that she had accidentally fired her personal handgun during a 1:15 a.m. confrontation with a panhandler on Capitol Hill."
"The officer, Penelope Fulmer, flagged down other officers the night of the incident, in March, but she didn't tell them she had fired her gun. She said only that she had chased the panhandler after he assaulted a friend of hers outside a restaurant ..."
"Two hours later, Fulmer told a commander she had accidentally fired her .38-caliber revolver during the incident, according to two department officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is under review." ... |
No
Comments found for this Newslink
|
|
QUOTES
TO REMEMBER |
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? [...] The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" —Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago (Chapter 1 "Arrest") |
|
|