The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is mourning federal wildlife officer David Taylor, 38 of Scio, Oregon, who is believed to have died while helping evacuate residents threatened by the Railroad South Fire.
Officer Taylor was going door to door alongside local emergency crews helping families get to safety. His last contact with dispatch came while he was helping a family evacuate their home. Evidence recovered from a structure where he was working to help a resident escape indicates that he died during the evacuation effort. Formal identification remains pending with the medical examiner.
Everything we know about David's actions reflects extraordinary courage, selflessness and devotion to duty.
Our hearts are with his family, friends, fellow officers and all who served alongside him. We will never forget his service.
250 years, and your empire has been reduced to a single island the size of Michigan, with a GDP barely higher than Mississippi, the poorest of our fifty states.
Enjoy your warm beer in that unairconditioned old pub.
Don’t talk too much shit online though, you might get arrested.
14 year old: I got my first part-time job!
Society: Congrats, don’t forget to pay taxes
17 year old: I want to join the military
Society: Hell yeah, go for it
18 year old: I can’t afford college
Society: Here’s a predatory loan you’ll pay back for 40 years, and you can’t bankrupt.
18 year old: I want to vote
Society: Absolutely, you should honestly be voting at 16!
19 year old: I want to become a porn star and have those images of me on the internet forever.
Society: Your body, your choice
20-year-old with 6 years of work experience, a deployment in Afghanistan, and $300k in debt: Can I have a beer and a cigarette?
Society: WHOA!!!!! absolutely not, your brain isn’t fully developed!
NO!! you do have that right...
BUT
If youre being arrested and reach for it and grab a magazine instead YOURE MOST LIKELY GOING TO GET SHOT..
This is a case of being radicalized. In my opinion he wanted to die
NO CCW HOLDER WOULD BE THAT STUPID. It was intentional.
How can people be so obtuse?
YES: It’s legal to be armed at a protest.
NO: You cannot physically impede lawful law-enforcement operations.
Both things can be true at the same time.
Complete bullshit. 99.99% of people lawfully concealing carrying are doing so to defend themselves and others. He was in a highly populated area; it’s completely logical to bring extra ammo. I’ve done it, and most of my friends have done it. None of us were planning to do anything; we were just preparing for the worst.
The amount of ammo and an optic aren’t evidence of anything, especially intent.
If you have real evidence use the real evidence. The democrat “his gun is extra scary” talking point isn’t one you get to use as the pro 2A side. Especially for a mall ninja edition Sig p320.
I carry a glock 19 with a surefire x300 and a red dot. I carry two spare mags most of the time. I do this grocery shopping. I carry this to church. I carry this to a friend's house for dinner. I generally carry it around the house. It's just second nature.
I'm not an activist and don't go to protests, but if I did, I would also carry it because I'm always armed. I also would not grapple with law enforcement while carrying a gun because I realize there is a very high probability I'll end up getting shot when they see it as I'm wrestling with them.
I'd simply not resist unless I was willing to die and intended to hold court on the street, because I would assume that possibility would be a very probable outcome while doing so.
I dont think Pretti should of been shot
But
if you carry and react the way he did you will get shot 100 percent of the time.
Cops get drawn on all the time. I know this and I keep my hands far away from my holster.. This is CCW 101
The 2A is a right and also a responsibility