(greg1199{at}yahoo.com) writes:
> USA wrote:
>> What is more disgusting than having women serving on police forces is
>> the fact that no one in the media will admit the obvious -- that this
>> female (like all females) was unable to control her gun or to control
>> the prisoner and as a result other people she was supposedly
>> "protecting" were killed.
> [...]
>> ATLANTA - A man being escorted into court for his rape trial Friday
>> stole a deputy's gun, killed the judge and two other people and
>> carjacked a reporter's vehicle to escape, setting off a massive
>> manhunt and creating widespread chaos across Atlanta, police said.
> [...]
>> Nichols got the gun by overpowering the female deputy while he was
>> being led down a corridor in the Fulton County Courthouse, Assistant
>
> Somehow, in all the coverage of this, I have only now learned that the
> cop assigned to guard this man was a woman.
>
> At the very least, a cop is expected to maintain control of his or her
> gun.  If a cop can't do that, then the cure is worse than the disease.
> And since police work often gets physical, is it too much to ask that a
> cop be .... strong?
>
> This may be one of the few cases in which a feminist really is the
> victim.  They spent years spouting into her face that she could do
> whatever men could do, and she believed it.  Then she decided to become
> a cop, and they let her.  She acted like she was as capable as any
> other officer, and they treated her as such.  They gave her a difficult
> job that most cops could have done, and she was killed.  I guess
> feminism really did her a big favor, eh?
>
> She reminds me of the female F-14 pilot who was passed even though she
> didn't meet the standards applied to male pilots.  She crashed on a
> carrier and died.  I guess the sisterhood really helped her too.

That was Kara Hultgren.

> If it had been a male cop in that courthouse, he might have been able
> to go unarmed, and just overpower the man he was guarding.  But it was
> a woman, so they had to give her a gun, and thus a gun wound up where
> it shouldn't have been.
> [...]

Indeed.

Andre



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