Thread: Aspen, CO: Shooting triggers reader outrage

Shooting triggers reader outrage

July 1, 2007

Aspen, CO Colorado

Articles detailing the firing of shots into the Basalt 7-Eleven last week and the followup investigation into the incident triggered a host of reader comment at aspentimes.com.

Police were investigating the possibility that two Latino men who had objected to a store clerk’s “U.S. Border Patrolâ€

It’s obvious this is an impotent police force. Time to take our and our families’ safety calmly but decisively into our own hands.

There it is. The police are NOT going to protect us. We don't have the freedom to express our convictions in a public way without being shot at.
There's no notion of having an intelligent discussion of the issues. It's their way or violence.

Please, be cautious this Fourth of July week.

True. What many people are coming to realize is that what the police are there to protect is not exactly your safety but the public peace and order. Often they are the same thing, but sometimes they diverge. That's why, when a criminal comes to court, it's "People of Such-and-such vs. Criminal"