Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "" video.

@snorman1911 I don't believe for a second that there is any soldier or LEO in a combat situation that turns their safety on when changing mags.
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@joshslim3 Manual safeties are a liability me bucko. I really don't need yet another extra step that I have to take if I have to draw my firearm on someone dangerous. I want the gun to function so I don't get hurt. "B-but that's dangerous to you!" Not really, as long as you actually follow the rules of gun safety and treat all weapons like they're always loaded and ready to fire. You do do that don't you? You aren't one of those guys who pretends that his gun is always safe because last time you remembered, you turned on the safety right?
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@etansivad Ah, you're one of those guys who thinks that cops can be expert psychoanalysts, or even that an expert psychoanalyst can be trusted in a situation like this. "He's crying, plz no yell!" Give me a fucking break. You are completely wrong, it is when people are at their most desperate that they commit acts of violence such as this one. He might have been bawling his eyes out, thinking himself "Well my life is completely over, might as well end it now" and pulled out a sidearm to shoot the cops, and then himself afterward. Why people like you continue to assume that a clearly deranged, violent criminal has predictable motives and emotions similar to that of a rational person is completely beyond me. There are multiple reasons a person can become so deranged as to do something like this and you have no way of knowing what sort of stimuli they will respond to, or how they will respond to it.
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@etansivad Personally I think that is too much to expect for a stranger who shows up at the last moment, when someone is about to kill themselves and/or others. It doesn't seem to me like there is a very large margin of "people who can be convinced to stop being crazy by cops who showed up to shoot them." Asking cops to use non-lethal force against lethal is disrespectful to the life of the cop. Maybe I'm wrong, but it doesn't seem feasible to me to train every cop so thoroughly in these techniques. Especially when you factor in the aptitude of any random cop -- some will be better at this specific type of thing, others won't -- and then balance that against the fact that most departments don't have enough cops as it is. Usually they have a specialist who is significantly more trained in it than his coworkers and must be called in individually. I often see suggestions like yours and others that seem to imply a complete overhaul of how most police departments work in America, which are at best long-term goals that cannot be achieved without major overhauls, and at worst pipe dreams. I'm no budgetary expert on most police departments either, but it doesn't seem like we can just come up with the money necessary for these overhauls just by "trimming the fat."
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@royalcookie2 Troops use their safeties when they're in a vehicle so a sudden bump doesn't cause an unfortunate accident. Handguns don't really have that problem because you can put them in a holster. Also, it is idiotic to compare military tactics to civilian tactics.
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