3 Police Officers Killed, 2 Injured In Pittsburgh Shooting

[DULurkster]

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/19094064/detail.html

3 Police Officers Killed, 2 Injured In Pittsburgh Shooting

POSTED: 9:13 am EDT April 4, 2009
UPDATED: 3:12 pm EDT April 4, 2009

PITTSBURGH -- Three police officers were killed and two others were injured in an unprecedented shooting in Pittsburgh's Stanton Heights neighborhood Saturday morning, where as many as 70 to 80 rounds may have been fired.

WTAE Channel 4 reported at the shooting scene that the suspect was identified as Richard "Pop" Poplawski, 23. Officers arrested Poplawski within the 11 a.m. hour.

[A childhood friend of Poplawski, identified as Edward Perkovic, said]... Poplawski feared "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" and "didn't like our rights being infringed upon."

 

[thundley4]

Aw  great!

[diesel driver]

Aw  great!

Yeah, really....

Now the gun grabbing nuts will have some more ammo to push for more "gun control"....

[Tucker]

Not condoning the actions of the shooter but, the police were there to take his weapons. They were answering a domestic violence complaint. Gun owners say on gun boards across America each and every day that they will not allow their guns to be confiscated by the Gov't. This one meant it. If obama tries a ban and confiscation, this scene will be repeated.

http://www.wpxi.com/video/19094713/index.html

[thundley4]

Of course there remains the possibility that the "childhood friend" is a gun grabber and is lying. Without some notes or writings of the perp, we'll not know for sure.

[Dragon]

Yeah, really....
Now the gun grabbing nuts will have some more ammo to push for more "gun control"....

Oh, they were going to do that anyway. You are right it just more ammo..
It just a shame that this will be the News for weeks now, along with the shootings in NY.
It is going to be hard to stop gun control as it is, now this sh@#

[Tucker]

Of course there remains the possibility that the "childhood friend" is a gun grabber and is lying. Without some notes or writings of the perp, we'll not know for sure.

He didn't die. Was shot in the leg, I hear.

[thundley4]

He didn't die. Was shot in the leg, I hear.

That's good, now if he says the same as his friend, I may believe it. However if he contradicts his friends statement, do you think the press will report it?

[happy1ga]

I heard this guy also recently lost his job/got laid off. Don't know, but that was the original newscast that came into Fox. They said he had an AK-47, also, has anyone heard that? These stories seem to change over time. In 98 I was in the middle of the gun fire when the cops came to the guy across the street from mine's house. He was in the Witness Protection Program, and was a big time dope dealer/gun dealer. Cops were coming to get him, too. This has stirred all of that up for me. I don't know why this one got to me so badly, versus the other shootings since, but I think it was because there were 5 killed that day, and the guy sprayed about 8 rounds, with an automatic. It felt like being in a mini-war. I had gone outside that day to get my sick cat, and he started running away from me, and he was heading for this nut's house, he liked to get under their deck. I had just got out from under their deck, when gunfire erupted. O.k., I just realized I need to let this subject alone, sorry for posting it here, and it being so long.

[Tucker]

That's good, now if he says the same as his friend, I may believe it. However if he contradicts his friends statement, do you think the press will report it?

I think so. Imagine A "From my cold dead hands" headlines. The libs would have a conniption.

[DULurkster]

He didn't die. Was shot in the leg, I hear.

from article:

Officers arrested Poplawski within the 11 a.m. hour.
(snip)
"The negotiators were able to talk the actor out of the home. He was apprehended and he was taken into custody," Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard said.

Gun owners say on gun boards across America each and every day that they will not allow their guns to be confiscated by the Gov't. This one meant it. If obama tries a ban and confiscation, this scene will be repeated.

Of course aside from the tragedy of the lost officers, if this is the case, could lead to a snowball effect. The more scenes repeated, the more attempts at confiscation, the more scenes repeated, and so on. Maybe, I fear, to the point public opinion really does start to shift.

This is really not good for 2A rights.

[lastparker]

If we were more like the DUmmies, we would be imagining an Obama-masterminded set-up.  Let's see...who is his "Rove"?

And happy1ga, I can't imagine.  I'd still be curled up in the fetal position somewhere.

[Airwolf]

This is not going to turn out well as long as they push their gun grabbing agendas.

[Tucker]

This is not going to turn out well as long as they push their gun grabbing agendas.

H5

No it will not. It will be repeated from coast to coast.

Do these liberal pukes think that we are just gonna let them disarm us, then control us.

[rich_t]

70-80 shots fired and only 3 dead?

Somebody wasn't skilled with the use of their weapon.

[happy1ga]

Seriously, I felt like a basket case after this happened, yesterday. I have no idea why this freaked me out. It has been 10 yrs, for heaven's sake, and lots of these shootings, no one them have phased me, past just feeling sad that it occurred, but for some reason, this one threw me right back to that day, and then that time period, and my ex-husband, the wife beater. I thought I was turning into a DUmmie, for a while there. Turned out, I think I just needed to turn off the news, and take some cold meds, and a nap. Yes, the shooting I was in, in a little town of 9,000 ppl, for goodness sake, with almost zero serious crime, and they had put this guy who somehow was in Witness Protection, out there  in the boonies. When they arrested him, the C. O. P. went on television and unfurled his arrest records, and they were so long, they pooled in the floor.  This was a really, really bad dude. My son had just sold him oranges for school, two days before. He was a pleasant neighbor, in a old biker grungy way. Anyway, I had to see and hear these cops, 3 of them I had went through school with, scream as they bled out and died. Awful experience. The good news is, Mr. a**hole bad guy seemed to have an accident not long after he went to the pen. He was beaten to death, and stabbed. Shame that, isn't it? Cop killers deserve the worst kinds of hell, and this guy yesterday was a wife beater? Think that's what my trigger was. Anyway, I am done angsting. Thanks for the kindness.

[NHSparky]

Well, if it's anything like the LAPD used to do, it'll be 5-6 rounds by the perp and a few hundred by the cops.

That being said, I can't imagine that Holder, Obama, and the Brady types aren't melting down the printing presses and servers getting more anti-gun crap out.

Molon labe, bastards.

[docstew]

70-80 shots fired and only 3 dead?

Somebody wasn't skilled with the use of their weapon.

good point.  he obviously wasn't like most of the responsible gun owners i know, the ones who go to the range to ensure they don't shoot more than needed.

[mamacags]

I wish the cops would have offed him.  I also find it disturbing that no one seems to be outright condemning him for openning fire on the police.

[thundley4]

I wish the cops would have offed him.  I also find it disturbing that no one seems to be outright condemning him for openning fire on the police.

Just a guess, since he is white, you won't see any candle light vigil or any other vigil for his support like we saw recently out in California.

[Tucker]

I wish the cops would have offed him.  I also find it disturbing that no one seems to be outright condemning him for openning fire on the police.

The police wasn't there to arrest him. They were there to take his guns.

Molon labe has a meaning.

[mamacags]

The police wasn't there to arrest him. They were there to take his guns.

Molon labe has a meaning.

The police were responding to a domestic disturbance.  Just because some guy was scared Obama was coming to take his guns doesn't excuse shooting up a bunch of police officers.  Just like it doesn't excuse the guy from my hometown who shot his whole family because he thought aliens were coming to take them away.

[Miss Mia]

The police wasn't there to arrest him. They were there to take his guns.

Molon labe has a meaning.

They were called there when the gunman's mother called 911.  It wasn't the first domestic disturbance they've had at the residence.  Where are you getting that they went there strictly to "take away his guns."  The gunman may have thought so, but that doesn't mean that's why the police were there.

[Miss Mia]

The police were responding to a domestic disturbance.  Just because some guy was scared Obama was coming to take his guns doesn't excuse shooting up a bunch of police officers.  Just like it doesn't excuse the guy from my hometown who shot his whole family because he thought aliens were coming to take them away.

Exactly.

[NHSparky]

The police wasn't there to arrest him. They were there to take his guns.

Molon labe has a meaning.

Frankly, with a guy who has as many issues as this one did...it's when they come after the guns of law-abiding citizens who have done nothing wrong that I'll really start to get upset.  This was originally a domestic disturbance call where he ambushed the cops, NOT a "gun-grab".

This guy got expelled from school, had to get a GED to get into the Marines where he promptly gets shitcanned in boot camp for assaulting his DI (and got a DD for it, not just the usual entry level separation), then afterwards developed a criminal record including a restraining order.  He was a shitbag, period, and had no business with a weapon.  Again, a guy like this gives the other 80,000,000 RESPONSIBLE gun owners a VERY bad name.