There also was a spike in shooting deaths. Fifty-nine federal, state and local officers were killed by gunfire in 2010, a 20 percent jump from last year's figures, when 49 were killed. The total does not include the death of a Georgia State Patrol trooper shot in the neck Monday night in Atlanta as he tried to make a traffic stop.Note the UK, which the NRA claims makes Thunderdome seem like DisneyWorld, has had about a dozen police officers shot to death in the last 80 years.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
NRA Helping Reduce Law Enforcement
Police shooting fatalities increase 20 percent in 2010:
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"Note the UK, which the NRA claims makes Thunderdome seem like DisneyWorld, has had about a dozen police officers shot to death in the last 80 years."
ReplyDeleteThe UK also has about the same size police force as New York.
FWM: Do you ever Google before you post?
ReplyDeleteFrankly, you just make things up.
Even with a 20% increase from last year, police shootings are still on a downward trend.
ReplyDeleteAztecRed has the pro-gun rap down pat. Either it's a "downward trend" or it has nothing to do with the gun, which is after all an inanimate object.
ReplyDeleteUp to 140 officers could have been shot last year and you still would have had a downward trend over the past 20 years, albeit a very subtle one. Needless to say
ReplyDeleteSo it's going to take a lot of dead cops over a lot of years before that trend is reversed and the crying of wolf becomes a real cause of alarm.