The Law Abiding Citizen and the Duty to Kill

In Shift, Police Advise Taking an Active Role to Counter Mass Attacks

By ERICA GOODE

Published: April 6, 2013

The speed and deadliness of recent high-profile shootings have prompted police departments to recommend fleeing, hiding or fighting in the event of a mass attack, instead of remaining passive and waiting for help.

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After the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, some police departments began telling officers to act immediately rather than wait for backup.

The shift represents a “sea change,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, which recently held a meeting in Washington to discuss shootings like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo.

The traditional advice to the public has been “don’t get involved, call 911,” Mr. Wexler said, adding, “There’s a recognition in these ‘active shooter’ situations that there may be a need for citizens to act in a way that perhaps they haven’t been trained for or equipped to deal with.”

Mr. Wexler and others noted that the change echoes a transformation in police procedures that began after the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, when some departments began telling officers who arrived first on a scene to act immediately rather than waiting for backup. Since then, the approach has become widespread, as a succession of high-profile shootings across the country has made it clear that no city or town is immune and that police agencies must be prepared to take an active approach.

“We used to sit outside and set up a perimeter and wait for the SWAT team to get there,” said Michael Dirden, an executive assistant chief of the Houston Police Department. “Now it’s a recognition that time is of the essence and those initial responders have to go in,” he said, adding that since the Virginia Tech University shooting in 2007, the department has been training first responders to move in on their own when they encounter active gunfire.

Research on mass shootings over the last decade has bolstered the idea that people at the scene of an attack have a better chance of survival if they take an active stance rather than waiting to be rescued by the police, who in many cases cannot get there fast enough to prevent the loss of life.

In an analysis of 84 such shooting cases in the United States from 2000 to 2010, for example, researchers at Texas State University found that the average time it took for the police to respond was three minutes.

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The American male has been totally pussified by the feminist lawyer and its male running dogs. These internal traitors control 99% of the policy making apparatus of the US government. They will crush all self help. This feminization was a major factor in 9/11, and totally covered up by the lawyer dominated fatuous 9/11 Commission. When the American male acted, the third flight was stopped from its intended target. 9/11 would have been impossible on the airlines of nations with less pussified males.

Now, the police is coming around a little.

I take a bit farther. Arm all law abiding citizens, and require they try to shoot and kill all violent criminals on the spot, with total legal immunity for error. If a citizen on video recording, does not take out the weapon and try to kill, they should be issued a ticket for $100.

That would end crime, and the massive lawyer employment it supports. The reason for the pussification, and the persecution of self help is in bad faith. It is to promote lawyer rent seeking.