Are police officers too dumb to handle firearms?

Southern California police agencies regularly lose track of all manner of firearms, from high-powered rifles and grenade launchers to standard service handguns — weapons that often wind up on the street.

How dumb can you get?

A Southern California News Group investigation of 134 state and local police agencies from Kern County to the Mexican border found that over the past five years at least 329 firearms were lost by or stolen from law enforcement.

Dozens of these weapons wound up on the hands of criminals, and some were involved in crimes. In Northern California, a missing police gun was used in a suspected murder.

But the number of guns known to be missing or stolen is almost certainly a fraction of the actual number that have made the jump from police agency to street. Not every department audits its weaponry. If they did, they’d find they were missing more guns.

Maybe the police aren’t smart enough to be given the responsibility of handling firearms? Maybe they’re just too dumb?

Read the frightening details at: “If police departments were gun dealers, they’d go out of business for the way they keep inventory” – Los Angeles Daily News.

 

Poll: 6-in-10 in @GOP side with @realDonaldTrump on delegate rules

Republican voters appear to agree with Donald Trump: Whoever has the most delegates should win the GOP nomination — never mind if he racks up a majority.

Sixty-three percent of Republican voters said the candidate with the most delegates should win the party’s nomination, even if he does not get an outright majority before the Republican National Convention in July, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll out Wednesday. Just 33 percent said the delegates should decide who is the nominee with no restriction on who they could select.

“While I believe I will clinch before Cleveland and get more than 1237 delegates, it is unfair in that there have been so many in the race!” Trump tweeted shortly after the poll’s release.

Source: POLITICO