I agree that the police took the correct action. I was talking to my better half about this last night and the fact of the matter, almost nation wide, is that SWAT and Tactical Response Teams are not funded sufficiently, the average office does not receive enough training and trigger time for my personal satisfaction. I would venture to say that avid shootist are on average better trained and have more trigger time than the typical rural SWAT or TRT groups.

I really would hate to see us, a community with active LEO and Military members second guess the guys and gals that were there. Those people will as BBadmin pointed out have to live with that experience the rest of their lives. My sympathies go to them as well as the family. This hits close to home for me, for all intents this could very well have been my daughter. I know that I would want the police to take action as soon as they could rather than be pacifistic.

Are we gun nuts.. yeah, why not? Are we Rednecks.. uh, have you seen Karl at a shoot? (Sorry, Karl, it was too easy to pass up) ... but we are the people who will not be victims, who will not stand by while others are harmed in our presence. We are those people that the founding fathers intended to uphold and honor the intent if not the letter of the Second Amendment.

So to the narrow minded and judgmental I say, fine, you are so very allowed and encouraged to hold your opinion of us. You may even voice that opinion, but do not expect that we will stand idly by as those who purport to protect our nation by continuing to confine and restrict our inherent rights drag our nation into fear and closed minded ignorance.