Texas(another typical day ): Police kill bank robber who pulled fake gun

Posted on Thu, May. 05, 2005

Police kill bank robber who pulled fake gun

LISA FALKENBERG%) Associated Press

A 60-year-old woman who robbed a Tyler bank and fled police in her recreational vehicle Thursday was shot to death after pulling a toy gun that officers mistook for a real weapon during a standoff, a police spokesman said.

David replies: Good, that is one bank robber who will never rob another bank.

I that that Mississippi, or Arkansas had that distinction.

enough to write:

Congratulations for posting something on topic for t.p.g.!

Sounds like a reasonable response by the police. If you don't want to get shot by police, don't commit robberies and don't point things that look like guns at them.

Must be why the US isn't in the top ten most violent countries, but the UK and Australia are, eh?

They also generally have much lower populations too.

abiding citizens are

In my state, Florida, our crime rates have decreased since we passed shall-issue CCW in 1987 and will likely decrease more now that we have a new Stand Your Ground law.

It was tried and it failed.

Your argument that only criminals would have guns if there Again, must be why the UK and Australia are in the top five most violent countries and the USA is not in the top tren, eh?

-*MORT*-

The problem is not one of guns but rather responsibility. The vast majority of gun owners are in fact responsible (at various levels). The biggest problem in the U.S. (in my opinion) is the fact that any attempt to quantify or legeslate a level of responsibility or even a code of conduct cranks the extreemists on both poles of the issue.

On the Ban guns side the idea of enforcing personal responsibilty is bad 'darn those fascists he didn't know it was wrong!' or 'the shooter is a victim too!' and on the other side is the not entirely paranoid belief (a lot paranoid but not entirely) that any set of rules is the start of a slippery slope leading to confiscation.

There should be really draconian laws punishing anyone who 1) is found in possession of a firearm illegally 2) knowingly provids a firearm to someone who can't get one legally 3) through negligance allows a firearm to be in possession of someone who can't get one legally.

BTW I agree with you about the OP 'point a gun at a cop, get shot'

She never robbed a bank, you nitwit. That's just the cop's cover story for another cold-blooded murder.

It wasn't the cops that shot her. It was really an armed civilian. The story was altered by you leftist, gun grabbing, retards.

I'm not seeing a downside here.

On 6 May 2005 08:06:43 -0700, 'Laura Bush murdered her boy friend'

'A 60-year-old woman who robbed a Tyler bank'

'Tallas, of Garland, had been convicted of three counts of bank robbery in the Dallas area in the early 1990s, police said.'

'The teller complied even though Martin said the suspect apparently did not display a weapon during the holdup.'

Looks like you're drunk again. But keep drinking- your posts get more

It's always nice to see stupidity be a capital offense. It should happen more often.

I think most any state is 'known for that' by someone or other.