Peel: Not Just For Bananas
Irradiated by Stingray
So continuing the theme of “Shit In My Spam Filter What Pisses Me Off,” today’s offering comes to us courtesy of an online purveyor of tacticool uselessness, Express Police Supply (deliberately un-linked). The subject line offers the enticement of “Now selling Civilian Firearms!” Investigating the link leads to confirmation that this is not in fact a new brand of firearm, etc, but in fact simply firearms that regular schmoes can purchase. Now, members of the law enforcement community who are regular readers of this blog obviously need not be told this, so kindly pardon a moment while I spell something out for the terminally worthless in the Us Vs Them segments of law enforcement.
POLICE ARE CIVILIANS YOU FUCKING TWATWAFFLES
Now I realize, unfortunately, that there are a truly saddening number (n > 0) of serving police officers who when confronted with the name “Robert Peel” would first assume it was an alias and try to find arrest warrants for it, and would take a good half hour of increasingly un-subtle hints before the connection to “The police are the public and the public are the police” was made, if made at all. And do let me point out that there are some excellent serving po-po so this is not a universal problem.
But if you look at an ad like that and have thoughts run through your precious little pea along the lines of “What do civilians need with a gun like that?” or consider cage-checks a for-points sport, or have entered on a report “The suspect was repeatedly subdued,” then I cordially invite you to swallow the muzzle of your undoubtedly rail-farm patrol rifle. With the fun switch that civilians have to pay extra for cranked all the way over.
May 31st, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Every time I hear a cop talk about “civilians” I want to ask him what his unit is and when he’s being deployed.
May 31st, 2011 at 1:49 pm
“Twatwaffle”.
Yep, that’s a keeper. {grin}
May 31st, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Oh… THAT is a good one… “twatwaffle”… LOL And I HAVE asked a cop what unit he was with when I got that crap pulled on me. Needless to say, that was NOT a pleasant conversation from that point forward.
May 31st, 2011 at 6:39 pm
Funny thing is we were actually having this conversation at work the other day - discussing how we were a civilian organization and not military, despite some preconceptions otherwise… Seems the cops who are former military understand the difference a lot better than the ones who wish they were…
June 3rd, 2011 at 9:42 am
Sean: unless said cop is over 48 YO or diabetic, he can talk to a recruiter, and earn the right to call us civilians.
No problem there … just sign the form.
June 10th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Why is it that peple who say the word “civilian” with contempt are so disproportionately likely to _falsely_ believe themselves members of another category?
June 13th, 2011 at 11:10 am
Thanks, you made me cough up Mountain Dew.
Twatwaffle is my new favorite curse word.
June 19th, 2011 at 12:15 am
“Twatwaffle”, I believe, was first used by the LeeAnn, the Cheese Mistress, at her blog which is now called, “Look, A Baby Wolf.”
I heartily recommend her cheerful smartasedness to all who are reading this, here and now.