An extremely sad day in my little town

[testcase]

"These crimes don't happen all that often in other countries with tighter gun control laws. But that's a topic for the other forum."

I guess you don't get out much space-time. Shootings of police, and numerous other government officials are very common in many other countries. So common that, such events are not very newsworthy.

Almost 30 years ago, when on vacation on the island of Jamaica, I was surprised that local police often were armed with true assault weapons. All the better resort properties had a corps of armed security.

That fact that so many Americans own firearms is a strong deterrent in many ways.

[Speedy]

That must be it...

> That fact that so many Americans own firearms is a strong deterrent in many ways.

[Bill in NC]

Guess he won't be a presidential candidate in 2012...

Dennis S wrote:
I had posted a link to Mike Huckabee regarding this. I guess it was pulled. It was NOT political. I believe Mike Huckebee shares guilt in this because he granted the suspect clemency for his own personal reasons. In addition to this clemency, he let a convicted rapist from jail who went on to murder a woman. So, whoever pulled the trigger is guilty, as is Mike Huckabee.