You can't help but be shocked by this. I heard on the news today that one of the officers had been shot in the shoulder and was down; they were trying to get him out of the way to safety, and the guy came out shooting wildly with the girl in front of him.

I was thinking a sharpshooter with a rifle would have been a great way to re-orient his cranial cavity but it's easy for me to judge sitting here. It's a tough one. Sometime the cops are too quick to shoot, but how many of us would put his life on the line to exercise some patience when there's a guy coming at you shooting wildly.

On some level, there's something horribly Darwinian about this. This man was an organism who did not behave with the proper intelligence to insure that his genes would live beyond him.

Lousy deal in several different ways at once. The guy looked pretty crude in the picture I saw of him -- no surprise there.

__________________
1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K