Re: Terminator TSSC finale (spoilers)--That's a cliffhanger?

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>Mark Nobles <cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>>>>Fully-automatic assault weapons? Pretty difficult. It's not like
>>>>they're just lying around for the taking.

>>>They aren't all that hard to find. Some police departments have one
>>>in every patrol car. Yes, fully-automatic assault rifles. (btw, this
>>>is redundant. By definition an assault rifle is full-auto.)

>>It's horrifying to think that any patrol car in a particular police
>>department should be equipped with an assault rifle. There are no
>>crimes in progress, short of armed invasion, that such weapons are
>>appropriate to counter.

>North Hollywood Bank of America robbery, Feb 28, 1997.

I'm not disagreeing that a criminal could arm himself with assault
weapons and wear body armour, but it's unreasonable for the cops to
match the criminals' firepower, as the predictible result is lots and
lots of dead innocents.