the road map to a police state,..

They’ve been prepared to work in commercial fire, house fire and car fire. Within the next few weeks, firefighting crews in Fairfield, Calif., can add a new category to that list — gunfire.

In what Fairfield Fire Department officials say is a response to recent events across the country, firefighters in the Northern California city will soon begin wearing bulletproof vests on certain types of calls in which first responders are at risk of being harmed through physical violence, such as active shooter situations.

After the Los Angeles riots in 1992, several cities including Monrovia, Downey and Santa Ana purchased vests for their firefighters. L.A. city firefighters also have access to bulletproof vests.

Fairfield crews are expected to begin wearing the vests in the field within the next four weeks, as soon as a department policy is in place for their use, said Battalion Chief Matt Luckenbach.

In a way, you can't blame the police for treating each situation like an armed encounter. Remember the North Hollywood bank shootout?

Is it possible that the NRA backed proliferation of high-powered weaponry has caused a reaction form the police?

"High-powered"

wow a lot of back n forth hate here....... with out any info..

Good enough GUY!



Oh yeah, that wasn't the first, second nor third time that has happened the past ten or so years.

No hate here, guyman. I think we all agree here that the militarization of the police is NOT a good thing. It's a danger to our republic. I do believe that ONE of the causes is the police reaction to the high level of guns in our society. It would certainly make me nervous if I was a cop. Hell, I'd probably be drawing down on cans of poppin' fresh dough!

Oh yeah. Pretty certain that these dudes are active card carrying NRA members, their weapons are registered and totally legal...

Fort Collins police have not released additional information about the
incident west of campus. They continue search for the suspect.

At this time, police continue to ask that anyone west of campus stay
indoors, with their doors locked, and stay away from windows.

Updates will be provided as FCPS releases information. Please call 911
and CSUPD ONLY to share information. Please do not call 911 or CSUPD for
updates on the situation.

Authorities are trying to piece together what led a gunman to kill five people in back-to-back shootings in Bakersfield on Wednesday evening before turning the gun on himself in a situation that Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said has become “the new normal” across the country.

The violence began about 5:20 p.m., when the man showed up at a trucking business with his wife and confronted another man. The husband shot the man and then turned the gun on his wife, killing her, Youngblood said.

When a third man showed up, the gunman chased him to the nearby Bear Mountain Sports shop and fatally shot him. The gunman, who has not been identified, then went to a home nearby and shot and killed two more people.

Youngblood said the gunman then carjacked a woman who had a child in her vehicle. Both victims were able to escape as the gunman drove to Edison Highway, where he was spotted by a deputy.

The man pulled into a lot and when the deputy approached, the man shot himself in the chest.

“This is the new normal if you look across the country at these types of shootings,” Youngblood told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday. The violence marks the third deadliest shooting in the nation this year behind the Parkland attack in Florida, which left 17 people dead, and the Sante Fe High School shooting in Texas, which killed 10.

The city of Dallas, Texas, has been rocked by news of an off-duty police officer shooting a black man in his own apartment.

...The National Rifle Association’s spokesperson sees the incident a bit differently. Dana Loesch argued that Jean would still be alive had he been armed and shot Guyger instead. “I don’t think there’s any context that the actions would have been justified,” Loesch acknowledged, but asserted that “this could have been very different if Botham Jean had been, say he was a law-abiding gun owner and he saw somebody coming into his apartment.” At a time when many conservative writers were expressing empathy for Jean and hoping that justice would be served, Loesch’s disciplined adherence to the NRA’s bottom line stands out.

Loesch’s reaction is an example of what one might call the “Rice rule,” after Tamir Rice, the 12-year old killed by a white police officer while playing in a park with a toy gun: There are no circumstances in which the responsibility for a police shooting of an unarmed black person cannot be placed on the victim.

...But the NRA’s conspicuous lack of outrage after the shootings of Philando Castile, Jason Washington, and Alton Sterling, all black men killed by police while in possession of a firearm, suggests an impossible double standard. When armed black men are shot by the police, the NRA says nothing about the rights of gun owners; when unarmed black men are shot, its spokesperson says they should have been armed. To this day, Loesch defends Castile’s shooting as justified—despite the fact that Castile informed the officer he was carrying a firearm. In Washington’s case, Loesch said she was “never going to keyboard quarterback what police are doing.”

...There’s also a catch-22 here: If Jean had been armed, Guyger would have a much more plausible defense. If innocent unarmed black men like Jean are shot, it’s because they lack firearms; if innocent black men who are armed like Castile or Sterling are shot, it’s because they had a gun. Heads, you’re dead; tails, you’re also dead.