Comments on: Cantonment Man Takes Deputy’s Gun During Struggle

By: Good grief get educated

Good grief get educated — Sun, 26 Oct 2014 14:11:38 +0000

I’m what may appear to be an awful person on paper, but that is not the fact. After a 20yr battle w/drugs. Plenty of arrest,prison,my children placed in foster homes. And all I could do was pray God help me stop. NOTHInG else had worked. Finally because of prayers. . I was put in the path of a drug councilor that was me 20 yrs earlier. Someone helped her deal with her real problem, because addiction is a symptom. Now I’ve been clean for 7yrs. Fraught for my kids back, and won. I’ve been on my job for 7yrs. & starting school next start. So why you all have your opinion, find a addict that got the help they really needs. And you will find a no longer active in addiction addict. If you want to help then help. To legalize marijuana isn’t saying sell drugs, it’s a less addictive altinart way for ppl to maintain some illness’ read up on that too!

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 15:40:03 +0000

Perdidofisherman – thank you for a realistic, common sense post. If drugs were legalized and taxed, the revenue generated would be tremendous. The burden on law enforcement would be lifted. Revenue channeled into prisons, etc could be used for counseling and/or rehab. Time to do away with Puritan archaic thinking. Time to be proactive not reactive.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:19:18 +0000

what this gentleman had in his car would be illegal in Portugal. Thus proving nothing. Because one thing does not work does not mean something else WILL work.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:26:38 +0000

Tammy,
Prove they come out worse. Some don’t come out at all. If they are damaged, prove they weren’t damaged when they broke the law the first few times. Knowingly doing what you KNOW can get you in an all male environment for years to come is not good evidence of an undamaged psyche.

Use reason: Did crime exist when drugs were legal? Yes, it did.
You nearly admit that making it illegal drew many into illegal drug dealing BECAUSE of the illegality and associated money. You just assume they wouldn’t do some other illegal thing if drugs were legalized. Further, there usually IS violence involved in illegal drug trade, but no law requires outlaws to be violent.

Yes, legalizing drugs would drive the current dope dealers out of that business because they couldn’t compete with Walmart, but they would still find laws to break while lusting after easy money.

David for better people

By: Tammy

Tammy — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 11:33:06 +0000

David Huie Green, Take a look at Portugal. You say making things legal won’t work. Surely you can admit that what were doing doesn’t work. Free up cops to prevent and fight crime. Quit throwing our money in the trash. Lets build schools, hospitals, highways, bridges, ect. I promise you sending people to prison because of drugs does not make a better citizen. They come out worse. They come out damaged.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 00:24:51 +0000

People don’t go into criminal activity because drugs are illegal.
Criminals go into whatever activity brings in easy money, which tends to be criminal because otherwise everybody could do it without fearing arrest.

To be clear, whatever is illegal will attract criminals; making everything legal just won’t work. Consider this gentleman’s past, it was NOT limited to drugs.

David for reality

By: Tammy

Tammy — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:16:42 +0000

David and Perdido fisherman are the wisest folks I have met in a long while. I try to explain this to people all the time. I usually get attacked or they think I am crazy. Crazy is do the same thing over and over again at great expense with no improvement. thanks prohibition. thanks for costing us trillions, increasing crime, and imprisoning more people than any other nation in the world. Lets stay the course everyone. Build more Jails! Hire more CO’s! Build more Jails! Hire more CO’s!

By: Sea Lawyer

Sea Lawyer — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 11:16:16 +0000

@Patriot

Glad to hear you guys in the “Prosecuting Attorney’s” are convinced that this an open and shut case. NOT! There are thousands of cases thrown out each year with this exact scenario. A good defense attorney could beat this case in his or her sleep.

By: sparnell61

sparnell61 — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:22:46 +0000

@David
The guy didn’t run because he was high,although I suppose he could’ve been,he ran because he had drugs and a firearm in the vehicle and knew if he was caught he was going to the big house.

@Patriot we both know why an investigator did a traffic stop for a broken tail light(something they don’t routinely do unless they know something is in the car) and it wasn’t because he was racial profiling.

Good job to the leo’s. Glad everybody went home safe

By: melodies4us

melodies4us — Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:06:50 +0000

This guy’s got some serious injuries. Look at his head.