(CNN) -- Two sheriff's deputies were shot and critically injured Monday night in the same Washington state county where four officers were killed last month, authorities said.
Two Pierce County sheriff's deputies were shot while responding to a domestic violence incident at home near the town of Eatonville, south of Seattle, said Hunter George, a spokesman for the county.
Man, y'all have a serious problem with authority in the Evergreen state, don'tcha? I mean, it would be expected from anti-authoritarian states like Montana or Wyoming or even Alaska, states where rugged individualists hole themselves up in their cabins and take potshots at revenoors, right? Not in an urbane state with hipster centers like Seattle, the birthplace of alternative rock music, right?
See, that's the trouble with trying to pigeonhole locales based on stereotypes and urban legends. Places like Texas, where the myth is that everyone walks around with a six-shooter on their hip just looking for an excuse to shoot someone, you've got guys like Travis Neel coming to the aid of a sheriff's deputy pinned down in an ambush from violent gang members. And in bohemian Washington, where Twilight was filmed and Nirvana got their start, we have stories like the above.
We're Americans, dammit; we don't fit into neat little boxes (says the right wing gun nut living in MA...)
One last thing, though; the story has a happy ending:
The deputies returned fire, killing the alleged shooter, Troyer said.
Too bad they didn't kill the SOB who lured them into the house, too...
That is all.
4 comments:
"I mean, it would be expected from anti-authoritarian states like Montana or Wyoming or even Alaska, states where rugged individualists hole themselves up in their cabins and take potshots at revenoors, right?"
You're kidding, right? The Washington State of The Order and the Aryan Nation? You do know who Robert Jay Mathews is?
Washington state has a loooong history of violence. Just ask your readers from Tacoma or any of the other war zones out there.
Washington state is more Drugstore Cowboy than some goofy hipster place were trust fund kids hang out.
Shootin' Buddy
Shootin' Buddy,
I'm talking more the PERCEPTION than the reality.
The media has made sure that Aryan Nation is synonymous with Idaho, not WA.
After all, WA is a good little blue state, remember?
Away from the polished shoes and skyscrapers, wherever it is blue politically, it is also dirty, broke and violent.
Come on out to the Midwest, we'll tour such Blue Bastions as the Southside of Chicago, Detroit, East Saint Louis and Gary, Indiana.
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