Las Vegas officer kills wife, son and then himself in burning home

[LLL]

The 52-year-old lawman, police said, killed his wife and child, called 911 to say he was burning his house down and warned he would take the life of anyone who tried to stop him.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/22/justic...html?hpt=hp_t4

[shortbuspoker]

Obv a very sad situation, but very ballsy of him if he burned himself alive rather than go by gunshot

[LLL]

Obv a very sad situation, but very ballsy of him if he burned himself alive rather than go by gunshot

Sounds like he did himself before the fire got to him.

[SetofKs]

I'm not even a gun person, never cared one way or another about the debate, but if they want to take the right to bear arms away from citizens, why should these animals be allowed to run around with them? If she had a gun on her maybe her and her son would be alive today. How many citizens have Las Vegas metro officers killed in the last few years now anyway?

[LLL]

I'm not even a gun person, never cared one way or another about the debate, but if they want to take the right to bear arms away from citizens, why should these animals be allowed to run around with them? If she had a gun on her maybe her and her son would be alive today. How many citizens have Las Vegas metro officers killed in the last few years now anyway?

The Metropolitan Police Department uses deadly force at a higher rate than many other urban police agencies, according to a Review-Journal analysis that shows Las Vegas police could reduce shootings by preventing officers from placing themselves in situations where shooting is their only option.

Police in Clark County have killed 142 people in 378 officer-involved shootings since 1990, with Las Vegas officers involved in more than 80 percent. In dozens of incidents, officers had no choice but to use a gun. In others, use of deadly force could have been avoided.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/deadly-forc...134255763.html

[The_PHA]

Obv a very sad situation, but very ballsy of him if he burned himself alive rather than go by gunshot

I think the worst death imaginable would be wading in the ocean around a school of sharks.

I can't remember the movie, but the hot chick and her boyfriend got left out to sea after scuba diving. Then the sharks came.

I'd rather burn than a posse of sharks bumping into me, knowing what is coming.

[Rollo Tomasi]

I'm not even a gun person, never cared one way or another about the debate, but if they want to take the right to bear arms away from citizens, why should these animals be allowed to run around with them? If she had a gun on her maybe her and her son would be alive today. How many citizens have Las Vegas metro officers killed in the last few years now anyway?

The Metropolitan Police Department uses deadly force at a higher rate than many other urban police agencies, according to a Review-Journal analysis that shows Las Vegas police could reduce shootings by preventing officers from placing themselves in situations where shooting is their only option.

Police in Clark County have killed 142 people in 378 officer-involved shootings since 1990, with Las Vegas officers involved in more than 80 percent. In dozens of incidents, officers had no choice but to use a gun. In others, use of deadly force could have been avoided.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/deadly-forc...134255763.html

better off shooting the bad guys then having to feed them in jail for 20-30 or 50 years