Should’a tried to talk ’em out of it

The “Michael Moore Solution” (disarm the cops) would likely have seen a far more different outcome. Our favorite commenter seems not so fond of crediting cops with much but it is our nature, I guess, to have “automatic sympathy for the police”, though there may be a small number who don’t do the right thing. We’re funny about that, but yes, we have “automatic sympathy” until its proven that they’ve acted properly.

Referring to yesterdays Garland Texas police shooting of armed jihadists after they shot an unarmed security guard protecting an event that the assailants disliked:

David French at National Review writes:  Fight Speech with Speech, and Guns with Guns

With the caveat that early reports are often wrong, the attack has all the hallmarks of an attempted Charlie Hebdo–style massacre, a potential mass murder stopped in its tracks by alert police. . . .

. . . In the face of an armed threat, the defense of free speech requires more than marches, rallies, and speeches. It requires men with guns who are just as determined to protect liberty as the jihadists are to take it. In this country we’ve grown accustomed to defending free speech the easy way, with court filings and op-eds. The hard way requires the use of disciplined, deadly force — exactly the force applied by the Garland police. 

While I certainly will never equate ISIS with all of Islam, my message to peaceful, law-abiding Muslims offended by Geller’s speech is simple:  . . . If one disagrees with Geller’s speech, the answer is more speech — not censorship and certainly not violence.  . .

We may not be as prepared at other times and other places, but last night we were, and for that we should be grateful.

Read the entire article for its full richness here                       DLH

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