Hindsight, as they say is 20:20. We'll never know for sure. Listening to
PBS this morning, one of the commentators was saying the guy was
extremely belligerent, and threatening that he had planted IEDs. I
think they were looking at all the death and destruction from this guy,
and that they didn't have the luxury of time.
I'm not going to fault them, because I wasn't there. If I were in charge
I might have done something different, and maybe I wouldn't.
I am happy that we won't be going into a years-long prosecution, and
decades-long reviews of his parole status.
bp
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On 7/9/2016 10:17 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Well, they fixed it. Texas style I guess. And it will stay fixed,
that is for sure.
We have all replace the entire run of CAT5 rather than waste time
troubleshooting it.
Perhaps there was another way, but probably not a quick obvious solution.
Tear gas could have flushed him and caused more shooting, ditto pepper
spray.
He could have dialed a phone number and blew up more people at any time.
Perhaps they could have put a tranquilizer rifle on the robot.
This is a case where the walking robots under control of an oculus
rift virtual control may have been useful, but imagine a future with
walking humanoid robots packing heat.
Put a bunch of armor on them, remote control Ironman.
Ken, some of are old enough that we will probably not have to worry
about Judge Dredd becoming reality...
*From:* Rory Conaway <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Saturday, July 9, 2016 11:06 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Philosophical question - WRT Dallas
The gas that the Russians use isn’t instantaneous and you have to have
specific containment. In addition, there is no chance the Police
Department even has it and the intelligence/military community aren’t
going give it to them for a lone gunman.
More than likely they determined by then that he was the lone shooter
and there was no way they were going to put more police lives in
danger to take him alive. They may also have made the determination
that he was psychotic and did know that he had meth in his apartment
and was probably still on it. In addition, they thought he had
another explosive device and since the found the materials at his
apartment, nobody was going to get close to him and they couldn’t risk
it going off. There were no other options.
Rory
*From:*Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Lewis Bergman
*Sent:* Saturday, July 9, 2016 9:56 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Philosophical question - WRT Dallas
I would mention, since this is Jaime's and my state, that the
mentality down here is to do something. That is the default. Maybe
not the right decision but I think folks down here prefer action over
inaction. Talking past a few hours is likely to be considered inaction.
On Sat, Jul 9, 2016, 11:44 AM <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Drones...
*From:*Sean Heskett <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:*Saturday, July 9, 2016 10:37 AM
*To:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:*Re: [AFMUG] OT Philosophical question - WRT Dallas
Very slippery slope IMHO
we've been doing it for years in other countries tho so it was
just a matter of time before we did it on our own soil.
Life imitating art...terminator style :-/
-Sean
On Saturday, July 9, 2016, Chuck McCown <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Why blow up a perp?
Why not keep talking?
Better to have him caged for the rest of his life IMHO.
