Disclaimer: everything contained in this blog is MY OPINION. Every attempt is made to present the truth through actual facts or to identify statements which are in doubt; otherwise there will be no deliberate presentation of gossip, rumor, or innuendo which can't be proven to be factual.
I grew up with guns: rifles, shotguns, pistols. I'm not afraid of them. I'm not some Nazi nutcase about them, but neither am I a fan of Rosie O'Donnell. If there's a rattlesnake in my yard, I'm not going to call animal control and wait for the snake to hide and bite one of my pets-or me, until the AC person gets here: I'm going to go shoot the snake.
Now, I don't know about everyone else, but I find it somewhat horrifying that a city commissioner places more value on where a prospective police chief lives than on the fact that he carries a gun and is responsible for enforcing the law.
Apparently none of these things are of prime importance, if they matter at all, to this commissioner. We should be used to this kind of off-the-wall logic from him, as he's employed this sort of reasoning before; but never before (that I know of) when it comes to putting a person who may decide life and death in a position of absolute authority.
If this person is well-trained, experienced, calm, fair, knowledgeable of the law, psychologically healthy and physically fit, then it shouldn't matter if he lives in a toad hole in my back yard or an igloo in Alaska.
If he's not, then it's irresponsible nonsense to consider putting him in that position.
Anita Huguelet McMurtrie
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