AST (After Sean Taylor)-To gun or not to gun?

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Sorry but I have a hard time believing that people just go out and shoot off their automatic weapons in DC. Now if you lived in the middle of no where then maybe. These guns are very loud and the cops would be crawing all over the place after one went off. By the way bullets falling from the sky will not kill a person. Saw that on myth busters. I was very surprised at how slow they fell back to earth.

Absolutely incorrect.

While I can't speak for DC specifically, I was an officer in a police department with a metro population of about 650,000.

On New Years Eve we'd find ourselves a nice place to park with a roof (under a bridge or something) and stay there. Near the projects there was non-stop weapons fire for about an hour, with a number of automatics in the mix. We would've needed the National Guard to go in an investigate every last shots fired call, not to mention all the bogus ones for "legit fireworks."

The city sounded like Fallujah on New Years, and I'll be damned if me or any other poorly equipped street cop is going to run around on foot trying to find some dude with a full auto AK47.