Gothamist: Cop Shoot Carjacker in Face

charlie heston

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 01:21:30 -0500

The term loaded and cocked really should be used only with single action type pistols. Everything else you just pull the trigger and it goes bang. But since many native new yorkers never held a handgun in their life, it's understandable they get all their misconceptions from the media. Cocked and Locked is really the only way to carry a 1911. and, it's plenty safe to do so. Modern guns don't really just discharge "accidentally", the trigger was pulled is how it went "off". A revolver has not been on the NYPD's list of approved off duty gun in more than a decade. Sure you have some old timers keeping them to show they're one of the veterans.

Dave H.

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:48:48 -0500

The story says that the cop shot the carjacker with a revolver and yet you have a picture of a .45 Colt 1911 pistol. Even though the carjacker was found with a loaded and cocked semi-auto .380, I am dismayed at the lack of your accuracy with your graphics Jen! PS This is a parody post pointed to the people critiing your lack of kitchenware accuracy on that pan/pot-bashing post. I don't see anyone else criticizing the accuracy of your gun graphic even though it's wholly inaccurate, albeit representative and illustrative, which is what your graphics are supposed to be.

grammar nazi

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:46:11 -0500

Ha ha ha, Seamus!

grafittix

Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:39:10 -0500

our taxes paid to finance both the shooting and the victim's recovery. you can't script comedy like this.

Seamus

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:49:22 -0500

the line should be "Cop Shots Carjacker in the Face" your tenses are all wrong..

S.D.

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:47:16 -0500

(sigh) A Citizen was Armed. I.e. the Carjacker and Lo! Crime has risen...

bee gee gee gee

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 14:24:50 -0500

exactly, somehow I would find a regular citizen in a much worse predicament if he/she did the same thing. like getting grilled by the cops as to why one used a gun to protect oneself. don't forget, this carjacker had a Gun to the victim. you fight power with power. and, I'm a good guy with a squeaky clean criminal record, not even a traffic ticket. yes, I went through some thorough background checks.

C

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 12:06:45 -0500

citizens should be armed for this very reason. crime would drop 80%.

Papercutninja

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:33:40 -0500

Good. He shoulda shot him in the face. This is one for the good guys.

JESUS CHRIST

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:51:55 -0500

LOL. the bronx

S.D.

Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:34:39 -0500

His aunt is an example of how relatives really shouldn't talk to the press. Of course she thinks her nephew didn't try it, She's his aunt. My Aunts could never imagine one of her darling nephews doing anything bad... "whether or not a man who ran away from carjackers - but left his girlfriend there - was ethical." Hope he means Ex-girlfriend! You don't leave someone behind, you make sure they are with you.