Two cops shot in Brooklyn gun battle, caps terror-filled NYC Labor Day weekend of shootings

[defendandprotect]

Two cops shot in Brooklyn gun battle, caps terror-filled NYC Labor Day weekend of shootings

Two cops were wounded in a gun battle Monday night, capping off a terrifying spate of shootings that left four people dead - one a bystander - and marred Brooklyn's West Indian Day Parade.

The surge of violence wounded eight and put the number of people shot over the weekend around the city to at least 48, including two people who were killed Sunday night. It came the same day the Daily News reported that 24 people were shot in the 24-hour period beginning 6 a.m. Saturday.

The violence during the holiday weekend culminated in a deadly shootout about 9 p.m. Monday on Park Place in Crown Heights, when Leroy Webster, 32, shot Eusi Johnson, 29, to death after they had a fistfight, cops said.

A stray bullet from Webster's pistol pierced through the head of 56-year-old Denise Gay, who was sitting on her front stoop nearby with her daughter, cops said. Gay was pronounced dead at the scene.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/new-york/two-cops-shot-brooklyn-gun-battle-caps-terror-140707072.html



GOP/NRA "Wild West America" -- enjoy it, folks!

[trumad]

1. Guns equal small dicks.

[Broderick]

2. Being as restrictive on gun ownership as NY is

you would think it wouldn't be like this. Chicago for that matter as well.

[ChandlerJr]

3. "Wild West America"? Is that a slam on West Indians?

Do you have reason to believe that West Indians are any more prone to gun violence than other cultures?

I don't get the connection.

[defendandprotect]

4. It's about GOP/NRA efforts to raise gun violence in America ....

However, you wouldn't be trying to push a RACE CARD by any chance to divert the thread

from a discussion of gun violence in America, would you ... ?






The Most Deadly Gunslingers of the Old West

The gunslingers of the American Wild West have become as famous as any figures in American history. In fact, names like Jessie James, Wyatt Earp, and Billy the Kid are more easily recognizable than the names of many U.S. Presidents. And while many of the most notorious men (and women) of this era are remembered for their fast tempers and even faster guns, they have come to represent not just what many consider the most violent period of American history, they represent the pioneering spirit that tamed a frontier fraught with inherent dangers. A romantic spirit that lives on in the hearts and minds of millions of Old West enthusiasts even today.

http://factoidz.com/the-most-deadly-gunslingers-of-the-old-west/




The American Old West, or the Wild West, comprises the history, geography, people, lore, and cultural expression of life in the Western United States, most often referring to the period of the later half of the 19th century, between the American Civil War and the end of the century. After the 18th century and the push beyond the Appalachian Mountains, the term is generally applied to anywhere west of the Mississippi River in earlier periods and westward from the frontier strip toward the later part of the 19th century. More broadly, the period stretches from the early 19th century to the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1920.<1>

Code of the WestA new code of behavior was becoming acceptable in the West. People no longer had a duty to retreat when threatened. This was a departure from British common law that required citizens to have their back to the wall before they could protect themselves with deadly force.<134> In 1876 an Ohio court held if attacked a citizen was not "obligated to fly". The Indiana Supreme Court upheld the legality of "no duty to retreat".<135> The code of the West dictated that a man did not have to back away from a fight, needing to retreat no further than "the air at his back", and could pursue an adversary even if it resulted in death.<136><137><138>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Old_West

[Missy Vixen]

5. But the crime rate in America is down!

:sarcasm:

Obviously, this was all invented by a liberal media. Those people weren't shot. They just died to make gun owners look bad!

:sarcasm: