Colorado man opens fire on officer with AR-15 at traffic stop for no headlights
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/22/colorado-man-opens-fire-on-officer-with-ar-15-at-traffic-stop-for-no-headlights/A Colorado man is in critical condition on Wednesday after he used an AR-15 assault rifle to fire at an officer and then was shot himself.
A Longmont Police Department press release obtained by the Coloradoan said that the 36-year-old police officer had stopped the suspect at about 2:15 a.m. on Tuesday for driving without headlights.
The suspect got out of his vehicle and “advanced on the officer and began firing multiple rounds at the officer with an AR-15-style rifle,” the statement said.
The officer returned fire, hitting the man three or more times. The department said that the officer had not been injured in the shoot out.
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He's like a swiss watch, always on time. 
You gunners are right on script this morning. Your "cold dead hands" shtick is right out of the NRA playbook...
back atcha.
but clearly I needed to add this 
for you.
The wit and wisdom to which I referred! Brilliant! Stellar! Off the charts!
and I'll say the same of you. 
Too bad no one can see it except you.
BTW, I am willing to bet money that you are unable to let someone else have the last word in an exchange.
three....two....one....we haz a winner!
Yea, I know you wear a seat belt. Of course, the chances of an accident are much greater than being a situation where a gun is needed.
Do you carry a defibrillator? It is much more likely you will need one of those.
Are ads like this effective on you and your gun buddies?
oh, I don't know, Jodi Arias?
If these idiots want to use military weapons and not meant to kill ppl...
If this all true, my answer is to rent from a gallery, you can fire with anything. If it is true , then shoot til your hearts content ppl DON'T DIE! ... can have any gun you want AK-xxx and oodles of magazines.
Have we hit all the buttons by now? I've lost track. 
They'll come up with all kinds of stories to justify exactly "what" a "militia" is in "today's terms."
Also, please ignore the fact that weapon technology has advanced considerably over the centuries, and the 2A hasn't been touched to reflect this. They'll want you to believe that the founders intended for citizens to have as much fire power as the highly-trained military our government spends billions on every year, with no limits, no checks, no restrictions, and that the 2A rights supersede all of the other rights the founders documented.
So, if the founders were alive and walking around today, they'd be OK with things the way they are--all the mass shootings, numerous accidents, and all the other catastrophes that go with gun ownership would be hunky-dory with them. Got it?
The NRA is a never ending source for talking points, though.
Enjoy things as they are while they last. Things are going to change. It's already started. With every mass shooting, more and more people will demand change.
Nice to know you place the right to bear arms above all others, including life. Strange that you haven't realized that without life, you don't need any rights.
".....part of the second amendment WAS to ensure that citizens DID have the same firepower as the govt as arms." 
Are you trying to say that citizens should own tanks, armored personnel carriers, killer drones (with missiles!), cluster bombs, etc?
I can just see the bumper stickers now: "When killer drones are outlawed, only outlaws will have killer drones!
What is a 'true militia member'? Are there false militia members? How does one tell the difference? Is there a difference?
A well armed citizen militia was allowed when a despotic king of a foreign nation decided to carry out the will of his nation, a colonial power, and one of their conquests decided uh uh. What foreign nation (or maybe person) is presently attempting to do the same thing today?
Oh wait, I forgot about the Kenyan muslim socialist and his minions. Silly me.
Wake up, people, the miniscule number of about 300 million guns in this country is paltry. I figure about 300 million more will give us a good start to the billion guns we need.
We probably have more in common than either of us realize. 
...the officer used training strategies that likely saved his life. The spotlight on the officer's car appears to have blinded the gunman.
"The officer) got to the other side of the vehicle, which really helped him. Fortunately, I don't think (the gunman) knew where the officer was,"...
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_23295214/longmont-police-officer-ok-suspect-critical-after-overnight
The gunman had previous DUI's with a suspended license.
With an AR15? just in case I needed to put it here)
Seems pretty clear to me? 
"...officer with AR-15..."
People who have weapons IN BROAD SITE, and fire on Police, are injured by them, but a lot of people who have NO WEAPONS AT ALL (Wallets, Newspapers, Belt Buckles) are killed? How does that happen?
Maybe it's the information or the way the piece was written, but the narrative is that a guy with an assault rifle opens up on a cop with a pistol (I suppose) from a distance that couldn't have been much more than 30 ft., if that, and the guy with the rifle misses "multiple times" while the cop puts 4 rounds in him. I am curious to hear more.
like that. In Nam not many people had pistols. Those who did carried them as a last resort. A few guys also humped shot guns. I never thought that was a particularly good idea, but they were good at close range. They just took too long to fire and reload. We even had a guy who carried a Thompson. It worked well for blasting through thick jungle. I carried a CAR 15 barrel attached to a regular M16 receiver. It was very short. The guys at the motor pool modified AK magazines for it. They carried 39 .223 rounds. Well, I guess it's whatever works and how you're trained. Have a good one. 
We called it a bloop gun because of the sound it made as the 40mm grenade was leaving the barrel.
