Though Admittedly Info Is Inadequate
by Bob Walsh
There was a shooting at a C&W bar near a college in Thousand Oaks, CA. Wednesday night. A total of 13 dead, including the shooter, who self-rehabilitated. The shooter, a former Marine, engaged security when he first walked in the door, then turned and opened up on the patrons of the bar. He also shot and killed one of two uniformed officers who responded to the shooting.
The "something odd" at least to me is the fact that there were six off-duty cops in the bar, apparently patrons, who (again apparently) did not engage the bad guy. Now admittedly it is completely possible they were there to do some alcohol consumption and decided to leave their weapons elsewhere. It is distinctly possible that their department specifically tells their officers to not drink in public while armed. I have no problem with that. I just think it is odd. By the way at least one of those officers shielded other patrons with is own body during the shooting.
Right now few facts are known. The shooter used a Glock 21 .45 pistol which he purchased legally. His motive is not known, at least not that anybody is confirming yet..
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Years ago some Houston cops got drunk in a bar. At closing time they stayed after the owner left and continued to drink. Sometime before daylight they started for home. They encountered a female janitor driving to work from Galveston and began chasing her because they said she had changed lanes and almost ran them off the road on the freeway. The janitor drove to a lighted highway construction area with a work crew present. The cops who had been trying to stop her in a POV, out of uniform. When she stopped she pulled a gun and was killed by the cops who had been trying to pull her over. None of the cops ever saw a day in jail. The cops were fired. The city paid a little over half a million settlement to the janitor's family. The following year, the legislature passed a law that made it illegal for a police officer in Texas to carry a pistol while intoxicated. Cops may keep a pistol in a vehicle lock box, but unless working they seldom carry them in a bar and consume A/B.
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