Tea Party Gun Laws

[Thunder TA]

The officer himself had a issue. It was drinking. That and guns do not mix as most officers know.Sounds sorta odd a Grand jury would no bill such a incident depending on where your even from, and what the other side of the issue turned out to be.As a officer its impossible to judge based on only hearing 1 side of what happened.Sorry for your friend being killed tho.
And no off duty officers do not think they can just shoot people.They have the same responsibility as a on duty officer.If not more.Many lives and crimes have been saved and stopped due to a off duty officer being in a business that is being robbed because the criminals do not know they are there or armed.

Also you fail to realize how many officers get their lives or their families threatened for doing their job the correct way .Some departments require off duty officers to carry their duty weapons concealed for those 2 reasons alone.Your basically suppose to always be prepared to be called to duty or protect the people you are sworn to serve.That is why where i work we are not even allowed into clubs that serve alcohol anywhere in this county.If found to be in 1 its grounds for termination.And has happened a few times.

[Evillone]

If an officer is required or feels the need to always be packing and as you say carrying a gun and drinking is a bad idea, then it would make sense that they should not be allowed to drink at all. the fact of the matter was that the cop did not identify himself before he "aggressively involved" himself in what he "thought was a domestic dispute" then shot my friend when he defended himself. the leagual battle was a much more involved story but the long and short of it was the case never was heard by a grand jury because the prosecutors office+chief of police did every thing they could to prevent that.

Also you mention off duty officers saving lives by being in a market while it was being robed. what about the lives lost in that exact same scenario? typically people robbing a convenient store want to be in and out ASAP and as long as they get the money they don't physically harm anyone. However when an off duty officer comes jumping out of the pastry isle waving his pistol their is a much higher probability that the would be robber start shooting putting everyone in the store in danger.

[Thunder TA]

Not to argue with you as you seem alittle biased on this. but a meth head juiced up is more prone to shoot the clerk and any witnesses as he is to leave quietly.
As to the case not going to a Grand Jury.Civil court is always open and not as hard to prove unless the evidence is different and already proven to be so.Not being there myself i would not know.