Thomas Matthew Crooks, the suspectin Saturday’s shooting, was registered as a Republican voter, according to Pennsylvania records.
Already the republicans are dismissing his voter registration as meaningless. Here comes the “mental illness” angle.
Edit: apparently it’s not uncommon to register with the party you oppose in PA. This is going to be a fun ride.
… it would been a whole lot easier if he hadn’t been shot dead.
If law enforcement sees a guy on a rooftop with a gun threatening a crowd of people, though, that’s an acceptable situation for “shoot first, ask questions later”. That shot that killed the guy probably saved other lives.
Non-lethal shots are a possibility.
No one in the history of actual combat shooting is taught to take non lethal shots. Ever.
There was an era where some cops were trained to shoot at limbs but even cops knew to ignore that shit.
It’s the normal procedure here in Finland to try to take someone down with shooting in the legs or somewhere else that they might survive from. Not the case if they start shooting of course, it’s more for situation where they’re wielding a knife and coming for the cop or someone else
Right, and that’s nonsense, people suck at aiming when they’re scared.
Just as well it’s not just “people”, it’s the trained and armed police. Same happens in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lee_Rigby