PUTNAM COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said it arrested a man who planned to “start a war” on Sunday morning. Deputies said Glen Ressler, 42, armed himself and intended to start an “active shooter” situation with deputies and “start a war.” The sheriff’s office said Ressler was angry because deputies had seized his driver’s license during an earlier traffic stop because it was suspended. Several deputies went to Ressler’s home in Interlachen to check on him after hearing about his threats toward law enforcement officers. A deputy using night vision spotted Ressler approaching deputies and wearing a tactical vest while armed with four firearms and extra ammunition, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies said they were able to disarm Ressler “through dialog, exceptional skill and tactical planning.” https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/florida-man-arrested-after-planning-to-start-a-war-deputies-say/ I give police grief when they do bad, so I have to give them props when they do good. Glad they were able to prevent this scumbag from killing anyone.
How does a guy with 4 guns and a tactical vests coming at cops, with plans to murder them, get taken alive? They shot that guy in the Nevada Hotel for pulling his baggy pants up...
You just went against what the libs have been preaching for years. When there is an active shooter call in a mental health expert because these people are mentally ill and need to be talked down. The police aren't qualified to deal with these situations.
Actually, doesn't this prove what a lot of people have been saying ... cops don't need to start making Swiss cheese out of unarmed people based on imaginary threats. Apparently cops can deal with these situations when their first instinct isn't to become an active shooter themselves.
Imaginary threats Tell that to the 54 police officers shot and killed in the line of duty so far this year.
It's a voluntary job and they are paid to take that risk. That unarmed man shot dead by a cop in his friend's driveway while delivering Christmas presents ... not so much
This stat made me curious. First, that is a sad number. I hate that happens. So I looked up how many people have been shot and killed by police. 1,039 as of Oct 7th is the number. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/
That is a very informative article and database. However I did not see a way to filter out how many shootings where due to the victim having a weapon or threatening with a weapon? How many were unarmed killings? To be clear, I do t think anyone would have blamed the police for killing the guy who was kitted out and stalking them. And no one believes that cops should be killing indiscriminately. But we need context. Random numbers and stats tell a very small part of what really happpens.
Sure, I was thinking that 54 was abnormally low. How many were friendly fire. We just had a 21 year old officer die from friendly fire. I provided a link, I didn't see one in the other post.
Look at 6 of the top 7 states for cop deaths…2022 cop deaths: 31 Texas, 9 Alabama, 9 Georgia, 8 Oklahoma, 8 Tennessee, 7 Florida… what do you notice?
Covid, crashes and heart attacks oh my. The Texas numbers are so out of wack, they must have a qualifier others don’t? Or border stuff, Edit, driven by covid.
To actually start a war this man should have gotten an F-15 according to Obiden. A one man war... hahahaha.
It is kind of perplexing. But it may be the result of a narrative where you only see rare datapoints, and then try to extrapolate a worldview based on what may be outliers.
I notice a couple of things, we won't get into demographics though. I also notice of the 8 police officers in Oklahoma who died in the line of duty 3 died in automobile crashes 4 died of COVID and 1 died of a gunshot. I didn't bother to look at the other states it only took one search.
I lied, I did look a little further. Of the 31 Texas cop deaths 3 were from gunfire. GA had 2 killed by gunfire. Tennessee's cop deaths by gunfire were 0. 1 for Alabama 2 for Florida I didn't check all states but it looks like California, Missouri and Kentucky were the leaders in gunfire deaths unless I overlooked a couple.
