Three New Jersey police officers shot; gunman reported dead

So were all 3 police officers shot or what? How do you get shot and suffer minor wounds? Possible but not probable. Nice exaggeration reuters…looks like the media are gonna milk shooting stories for a while…

Local reports are saying a prisoner managed to get an officer’s gun and began firing at everyone. The officers returned fire killing the prisoner.

Should there be a call now to disarm all police officers of their firearms, since a police officer was killed by their own weapon? If it found that the police officer weapon belonged to a woman officer, only disarm the women officers?

Here is a case of an unarmed criminal overcoming three police officers, at the police station, killing one with their own firearm. Yet, the government wants us to protect ourselves with a walking cane?

All of the shootings have several things in common, they were all against the law, they were all done with weapons the shooter was not allowed to have under Federal gun control laws, and they were all either crazy or career criminals. Laws really do work.
Yep, law abiding citizens need to give up their guns and submit to the United States of Somalia.
Sure.

@Wallace_Cleaver,
Read the story again. No officers were killed. Of course that could change the way Reuters reports things.

NRA offers solution: Armed police at every station and future situations like this can be averted!

paragraph 6: You don’t bring someone to the hospital, you take them.
Hope the officers recover completely.
Is it the time of year or are people with anger issues and mental health problems becoming murderously violent all across America ?

@Wallace_Cleaver:

Last time I looked, no one, not now, not ever, has suggested disarming police officers.

Dan Burns says: The incident follows several recent multiple shootings in the United States, and comes two weeks after a gunman killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

One week ago in western Pennsylvania, a man with a pistol fatally shot three people and then opened fire on police. Three officers were injured in that incident, one in a collision from a car chase with the gunman, another from bullet fragments to the face and a third who was struck with gunfire to the chest but survived because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.

Like this is relevant to the story/incident. Dan, you are stirring the pot. Are you proud of yourself? You shouldn’t be. Go take a look at yourself man, really.

Let’s wait for the NRA to chime in. They will probably propose that all police stations have armed guards. Also armed guards at movie theaters, restaurants, shopping malls, busy street corners, office buildings, factories, and especially churches.

This is clearly a problem with guns……..

Police must not be allowed to carry guns for their own protection.

“The man was able to grab a gun and then opened fire.”

No handcuffs?

The officers that brought this guy in should be ______ (you fill in the blank).

No need to be extreme. Things freakin happen!
Look at it this way:
… that gunman will never shoot an officer (or anyone) again.
Remember folks … WHATEVER gun law is considered, it will not
deter criminals (you know, people who are not law-abiding)
from having or using them.

Domestic violence, gang violence, child abuse, … give these more attention and education … or justice!

… and lets make spoons smaller to avoid obesity.

oldschool wrote

Last time I looked, no one, not now, not ever, has suggested disarming police officers.

That’s good of you, oldschooler, but if the guns are the problem, why not?

I get it Oldschooler, you just want to disarm the old folks with walking canes.

NRA issues statement:

“We believe police officers should start carrying guns, and this kind of of thing won’t happen.”

So if a firearm is used in any way by anyone for any purpose, some of us don’t want Reuters to report the information at all? Or we think they would have written it better? Or it should have been written with more (or less) emphasis on how the piece could be related to gun laws, enforcement of gun laws, domestic violence, enforcement of laws against domestic violence, police work, dangers of police work, or maybe the possibility of incoming asteroids destroying the police station in question?

Vive the Fourth Estate and long may it continue to survive half-paid attention, a quarter of the respect it deserves, and not even an eighth of the money we’ll eventually realize we should have been willing to pay for professional journalism.

I bet Reuters must second-guess themselves on the wisdom of offering commentary space (and the resources to manage it) at least thousands of times every day. It’s a pretty thankless task. But I appreciate their maintaining the commentary option: sometimes it’s a real window on why they’re the reporters and we’re the readers, assuming we even bother to read all of a piece before we express our priceless opinions.

@Cleaver. That’s a nonsensical comment. Note that the police did not carry automatic weapons or more officers would have been shot, and most certainly more would have died. No one wants to disarm anyone.. only take military assault weapons out of the hands of civilians, and enact and enforce background checks.

@Cleaver. That’s a nonsensical comment. Note that the police did not carry automatic weapons or more officers would have been shot, and most certainly more would have died. No one wants to disarm anyone.. only take military assault weapons out of the hands of civilians, and enact and enforce background checks.

Funny how when there are people around an active shooter with guns far less people are killed. Guns save lives!

Hey Liz, relax.
Comments are just that, comments,
… even yours, about “Reuters journalism.”

@@@@@ is this a debate blog between a couple of people, or a comment board?
Just wondering.

People area usually a wee bit stressed this time of year. I enjoy hibernating indoors until the holidays are over.

And the NRA thinks that having armed guards in schools and everywhere will solve the problem of gun violence.

A police spokesperson stated that two of the officers were Grazed.

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