Enough is enough, and one thing I won't tolerate, is a writer being personally picked on after being honest about their life. It's the topic that should be debated, not the writer being hung crap on.
It's this type of mentality that stupid teenagers do to others, and is it any wonder why some suicide!!
Make this about the topic, not the writer or his nationality or his job or his life.
I found nothing to indicate he 'shows off' about having been a policeman, in fact the very opposite, an honest account of how scary it has been at times, and thought his own life would be at risk, yet never drawing a gun, which shows a lot of Americans in his position, do have restraint for that as a last resort. Hence he admires Seth Bullock, which in Deadwood, (I have watched it 3 times), is exactly that sort of person, restoring law and order in a lawless land without shooting anyone. The toughest part of our bodies I had learnt at a weekend seminar, are our minds.
None want that on their conscious, having killed or maimed someone, after my encounter with an ex copper from NSW that did shoot someone dead, his unable to go back to work, it is on his conscious and he looked in pain, just like the Viet Vets come back unable to fathom what they have seen and had to do, or, ordered to do.
Mr. Seth here was born into a country that is the way it is. He didn't make the laws, he has abided by them, and served as a policeman and faced more challenges than the average joe in the US.
I for one, would never want to be a copper anywhere, not even in Oz. I have said on Oz Politics, that I think it's a negative job, faced with negativity all the time.
The gun situation in the US isn't good, but it's the way it is now, and governments are to blame. I don't like it, but I won't personally put crap on anyone in here or anywhere for that matter. So with that, lock this topic, it's going nowhere except gang picking on the writer. I'm watching now!

