Arrest Made in Pharmacy Slayings
Great. It's comforting to know that in the wake of a senseless, brutal slaying, the police will be able to apprehend the suspected party several days later. Now, don't misunderstand me - I think the cops did a great job tracking this guy down. They showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that, given sufficient motivation they can track down even lowlife drug seekers turned violent, a superb bit of sleuthing. All they had to go on was some grainy surveillance footage and prescription records, and they nailed the guy quick.An arrest has been made in connection with the pharmacy shootings that claimed the lives of four people on Long Island over the weekend, including a 17-year-old girl who was supposed to graduate this week, police confirmed Wednesday.
The suspect, identified as David Laffer, 33, is in custody at police headquarters in Yaphank, law-enforcement sources tell NBC New York.
BUT...
They nailed him *after* the fact. Four people lost their lives because some drug-addled jackass decided not to leave witnesses - and got caught anyways. The best thing that could come of this would be to send a message to other drug seekers that executing witnesses is not going to prevent you from getting caught. But what's sad is this:
In the aftermath of the shootings, Dormer warned physicians and the owners of small drugstores in the area to be vigilant about anyone "expressing an urgent need for prescription painkillers." He said added police patrols would be deployed near small pharmacies until a suspect is apprehended.Unless "be vigilant" is code for "put a Mossberg 500 under the counter", what they're setting up for is more compliant victims. What the hell good does "being vigilant" help when someone comes in with the intention of slaughtering everyone in the room? The pharmacist might have an eagle eye for details and everything, but that's not going to help if the perp starts firing when he walks in the door. The likelihood of an updated police patrol happening to be exactly where Donnie Druggie opens fire are vanishingly small.
Like it or not, you are your best line of defense - have, and carry about your person, the best tools for the job.
That is all.
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And proving that a permit doesn't solve anything ... supposedly this POS had a NYS permit.
Well at least those law abiding pharmacists aren't carrying weapons, like that one from walgreens, who shot the place up defending himself, his employees, and a few customers. I walk into these stores feeling much safer knowing all these folks are obeying the law having chosen to try and compromise their way verbally out of a situation with a gun in their face.
God forbid a person who chose to spend between 50 and 100k on graduate school to become a pharmacist have a gun. Can't have that at all..... who knows that the one at this latest place might have accidentally saved those 4 people.
Worse yet he / she might have even gotten fired.
Whew..... I'm relived. Just think of what all could have gone wrong here.
I read the linked article, and the original article you posted a couple of days ago, and I still can't tell what actually happened. Was it "a robbery gone wrong" and the guy only started shooting after it went pear-shaped on him? Did he always intend to kill any witnesses? Did he just walk in and start shooting?
There's an interesting, and telling, quote in the article about the arrest. An onlooker described the suspect as looking "distraught" and added that he "looked like a shell of a man." I think Mommy's little boy just found out that (unless you're a sociopath like Whitey Bulger) killing people for-real ain't as easy as it looks in the movies.
Oh, and speaking of Whitey, didja see that his apartment contained lotsa guns, both handguns and long guns? In California, mind you. Gun Control Central, West Coast. Wonder how many of those guns were registered, or bought legitimately?
Amen to that!
And now his wife has admitted she was involved, but never meant for anyone to get shot... yeah, right...
Oh but the extra police patrols are only until the suspect has been apprehended ... and he has been.
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