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EdnaBambrick wrote:

KLB wrote:California is a mess, but why did he fire into the air? Why not the ground--if a warning shot was necessary?

Wordsworth didn't mean anything quite so literal, but the point is close enough that it comes to mind:

The Arrow and the Song
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

Wadsworth and Shakespeare (Hamlet) are wrong. It is our responsibility to know where our arrows land.

bblhd672 wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:I don't know why any one in California would want to be a cop there. The first big wave of departures was people leaving the state to follow their jobs. The next wave of departures will be LEOs, Firemen, and Paramedics, who are very tired of having to daily face a rabble that no longer has any respect for authority. Eventually, the police departments will be staffed with unqualified thugs and released felons as the state's gov't tries to fill the ranks with the "victims of oppression". At that point, police depts will no longer be police, but rather the enforcement arms of the various bureaucracies run by SJWs.

Sounds like Kurt Schlichter's book "People's Republic".