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Reported: Shots Fired at Capitol; Building on Lockdown

I kinda feel bad for whichever sharpshooter probably put her down. A car rams the gate at the White House, obviously you have to react as if there's a bomb in it and take them out immediately. Then later you find out is was just some woman who snapped and had her kid with her, who got to watch its mom go crazy and then get shot.

Also feel bad for the kid.

What? How could you posible know that is the case.

Do you think because she was a woman that she couldn't be capable of something like this unless she was crazy?
 
Have any of you seen the video? This is bizarre. They are also saying she had no weapon and this began after ramming the White House gate before driving off.

Heya Sherman.....is that confirmed. That she had no weapon?
 
Victim? The one committing the crime is the perpetrator. The person/people the crime was aimed at and innocent bystanders are victims.

Oh, so she was a liberal, how did you learn that? Oops, I meant socialist. Sometimes hard to tell the difference, oh wait, thats because there isn't really one.

See:

Just stay classy!

Couldn't have said it better myself.
 
What? How could you posible know that is the case.

Do you think because she was a woman that she couldn't be capable of something like this unless she was crazy?

Way to go to the sexism card, kiddo.

No, I think that because going on a high speed police chase and then ramming the gates to the white house with your child in the car is sufficient evidence for me to decide that a person is, in fact, ****ing crazy.
 
Couldn't the officers have shot her tires out to stop her?
 
Way to go to the sexism card, kiddo.

No, I think that because going on a high speed police chase and then ramming the gates to the white house with your child in the car is sufficient evidence for me to decide that a person is, in fact, ****ing crazy.

Your post was the sexist post.

You implied that because she is a woman that something like this is not posible.

Why would he sex make any difference if she did this or not?
 
Couldn't the officers have shot her tires out to stop her?

Have you ever tried to shoot out the tires on a moving vehicle? Have you ever tried it in an urban area where a ricochet could end up pretty much anywhere?
 
ABC News: Female Suspect Is Dead

If she's a conservative, she'll be portrayed as an evil Tea Partier that is out to destroy the government.

If she's a liberal, she'll be the victim of Republicans and their unwillingness to negotiate with Obama.

Playing the whiney victim card in record time I see.
 
It says, When she crashed for the final time, she got out and was gunned down by police. So that entire "Active Shooter" thing on the news was total bull****, she never had a weapon. . .
 
It says, When she crashed for the final time, she got out and was gunned down by police. So that entire "Active Shooter" thing on the news was total bull****, she never had a weapon. . .
Then who fired the shots near capital?
 
The police. They must of heard the police shooting and figured it was a deranged psycho on the loose.

Then who fired the shots near capital?
 
The police. They must of heard the police shooting and figured it was a deranged psycho on the loose.
The downside to instant information dissemination in this modern age - everyone wants to be first, and damn checking facts.

Of course, if you wait a day, usually you get a fairly accurate picture.
 
So basically... she was shot to death for leaving the scene of an accident.

Seems a tad bit extreme to me.
 
So basically... she was shot to death for leaving the scene of an accident.

Seems a tad bit extreme to me.

If that was the policy of the LAPD, it sure would deplete the illegal alien population in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles averages 48 hit and runs every day and the majority are illegal aliens.
 
If that was the policy of the LAPD, it sure would deplete the illegal alien population in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles averages 48 hit and runs every day and the majority are illegal aliens.

Source please?
 
If that was the policy of the LAPD, it sure would deplete the illegal alien population in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles averages 48 hit and runs every day and the majority are illegal aliens.
Don't be an ass.
 
Have you ever tried to shoot out the tires on a moving vehicle? Have you ever tried it in an urban area where a ricochet could end up pretty much anywhere?

Hey, it happens in the movies all the time! But seriously, they're trained shooters, and it seems as easy, if not easier, to shoot at any one of four tires than to shoot a face inside the car. Also, I thought the car had come to a stop after crashing, at which point couldn't they shoot out the tires, then order her to get out for arrest? But that's when they shot her to death. That's what I thought I read. (They had been shooting during the chase, too.)
 
What's really sick is that the Capitol police murdered the woman in cold blood right in front of her baby daughter and then congress gave them a standing ovation.

WTF?
 
How long before a republican claims an unnamed source told them the police were given a stand down order?
 
Hey, it happens in the movies all the time! But seriously, they're trained shooters, and it seems as easy, if not easier, to shoot at any one of four tires than to shoot a face inside the car. Also, I thought the car had come to a stop after crashing, at which point couldn't they shoot out the tires, then order her to get out for arrest? But that's when they shot her to death. That's what I thought I read. (They had been shooting during the chase, too.)

If we're talking about police, their training with weapons is meager. Remember just this year, that shootout where police wounded several civilians? They just aren't very good. Plus handguns are very inaccurate except at very short range. Plus tires are rubbery and rather hard, if a bullet glances off it's a mean ricochet.

That being said, it seems to me that there was serious overreaction. This is the kind of thing I'd expect in Iraq. Sounds like she got into an accident and then panicked when men drew guns and ran to her car.
 
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