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Barack_America

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8. I'm sitting here now, with my son safe in his bed, saying that I would do it.

Reply to Cirque du So-What (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 7, 2013, 10:53 PM

Nov 2013

Am I being irrational?

We celebrate soldiers who march into certain death for country, but we taze parents who try to do the same for their kids?

Tell me how that makes sense.

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Police Taze Dad Trying to Save Son While Burning in a House Fire, Twice After He Was Handcuffed. [View all] AnotherMcIntosh Nov 2013 OP

I see it as my right to risk my life trying to save my child. Barack_America Nov 2013 #1

Is it your right Cirque du So-What Nov 2013 #3

They didn't go in after the boy... Barack_America Nov 2013 #5

Regardless Cirque du So-What Nov 2013 #6

I'm sitting here now, with my son safe in his bed, saying that I would do it. Barack_America Nov 2013 #8

Perhaps Irrantional, but very Biological Savannahmann Nov 2013 #10

Tasing the man after he was in handcuffs is the definition of abuse, and torture. Th1onein Nov 2013 #12

Firemen were trying to put the fire out Beaverhausen Nov 2013 #15

My comment was in response to the reply Savannahmann Nov 2013 #16

The police have no duty to protect you... KansDem Nov 2013 #19

Is that what the father was doing when he was sitting in the back of the squad car, in handcuffs? AnotherMcIntosh Nov 2013 #13

the firefighters probably knew he had no chance of making it out alive JI7 Nov 2013 #7

Tragic as this story is Cirque du So-What Nov 2013 #2

Since his name isn't Houdini, is there any way that the cop could think that the father could escape AnotherMcIntosh Nov 2013 #14

awful Liberal_in_LA Nov 2013 #4

I can understand preventing him from going in. kcr Nov 2013 #9

As if we expect anything else from the Police Savannahmann Nov 2013 #11

Everyone Cirque du So-What Nov 2013 #17

Kudos for having the integrity to post this. Nuclear Unicorn Nov 2013 #18