singaporean forumer = idiot

It is shocking to know someone got shot at in the "safe" streets of Singapore. (in the MRT station, to be exact) Being curious, I searched asiaone for what is the first operational shooting in 6 years.. but I got pissed at the comments made in its forums on the police force.

Singaporeans are a big bunch of complainers and whiners. Many people i know are like this: give u little pay, complain, give you more pay, you say they're gonna tax you more. (DUH?)

BUT dissing people who have been serving and protecting YOU smells badly like biting the hand that feeds you. the recruitment ads that the armed and police forces put out may be exaggerated, but respect should be given where it's due.

While the shooting does seem like an excessive use of force, some of the crap these farkers put out really takes the cake. "he should have aimed his hand or leg", "don't the police learn close combat?", "if police don't charge at him, how will a person charge at the police?"

i mean, wat the fark? have u shot a pistol? do you know how accurate the weapon is? do you think u can aim at his arm or leg, with one eye squinting at a man running at you with a knife in his hand? do you expect him to shoot the knife off his hand? do you think he can have a nice little close combat with him with a pistol in your hand and a knife coming at you? the last question really takes the cake - that idiot actually expects the police to run away from the suspect, so that he won't feel the need to charge at the police?! he goes into an MRT station with a knife having just killed someone, do you think the police should let him go home and take a shower first?

i would really dread to see such a man in blue. selfish, self-centred and being all self-righteous. he doesn't have the slightest idea of what a law enforcement officer goes through before he shoots a round.

Granted that deriding such a person may give me great pleasure, but he has a point in when he says that the man may be unstable. the man could be mentally deranged, drugged out (thus impervious to pain), or depressed enough to cause him to stab someone.

now, we can't possibly know and the police officer who pulled the trigger may live in regret even.

having gone through taser training recently, i think it's time every police officer be issued with a taser (non-lethal) and a pistol (lethal). we wouldn't have to go through this sort of drama again and could probably save the life of the assailant and bringing him before justice.

with all the flak that the spf gets recently with the escapee and this shooting, it's easy for singaporeans to be cynical. that's wat we do best. but please, when you whine and complain, put yourselves in their shoes.

Consider this: imagine you're the home affairs minister, wat would u have done to catch the escapee? and if you were the officer at the MRT scene, with your gun the only weapon you have against someone who has just killed and charging at you, what would you have done?