2 police officers injured in gunbattle | The Columbus Dispatch

It upsets me to think that I live in a society where anyone can become a cop and most who do become cops don't deserve to wear the badge. No one cares that this great, caring, loving individual was left to bleed to death on his own floor while no one attended to his wounds. Something that needs to be realized in this society is that Jason was a human being and deserved a hell of a lot more than what the medics and cops did for him. All anyone cares is that no cops died. they could care less for anyone else. cops are above the law and everyone can be bought if the price is right. this is what is horrible. since they all can be bought how can we trust them? we can't. No cop should be honored for what happened that day-this isn't cowboys and indians and shoot whatever moves. no one is equal in this society and cops always have the upper hand and people believe whatever they're told. people who win the wars write the history books

flyking, you are an ignorant individual. Mr Farnsworth's actions were suicidal. If he wanted a medic or cop to help him dont you think he would have put his ak47 down and crawled out on to the porch where he could have yelled for help? Or better yet, not shoot at cops to begin with. This man was heavily armed, and trying to kill anyone he could. There is no medic, cop or civilian that would have walked into Jasons house to help him at that time. Would you attempt to help someone that thought he just killed a cop? I dont think you would have. You can say how fucked up our society is but its people like you who fail to see fault, and stick up for the craziest criminals. Its hard to like cops when you have criminal lifestyle. Get a life dude. Crime doesn't pay, cops are just doing there job.

It's because if the officers would have handled your friend's situation any different, then they would have had to do the same for everyone else.

Listen, I know you lost someone whom you considered a friend. I get that, and I think it's safe to say that everyone who has/does visit this board gets it too. Whether you believe it or not, we all get it that you are grieving. It doesn't take someone with a rocket science degree to figure that out.

Whether you choose to believe this or not, you are not the only person in this world who has had someone they considered a friend that had done something deplorable. An example I will use for myself would be Tommy Mohart. At one point in time, Tommy was a lifeguard for the local pool in Canal when I was little and when he saw that the swimming instructor gave up on me because I wasn't grasping on like the others in my class, he refused to cast me to the wayside.

However, as I am sure you and your friends already know, later on in life, Tommy shot his wife right in front of a police station, where she went to try to get help when the couple got into a fight.

And what I can tell you is that when I heard this news, I felt both shocked and hurt that someone who I once thought was a nice person, one of the very few people who refused to give up on me when I was a child could do such a thing, and I was hurt because here was a person who I thought was a nice and decent person, someone who I once thought I knew all along, I didn't really know at all.

I am not trying to tell you how to feel, but that is just something you might want to think about.

Or not.....that choice is exclusively yours.

flyking138==you are a total and complete idiot. Truly you are. How can you sit and think the Cops are to blame when they reacted to your dead friends actions. And, remember this, he took his own life because he was too cowardly to face his punishment.
The world is a better place because he is not in it! Sorry that the family has to see this, but you are defending a person that made his own choices, and the last one he made was to end his life. I suppose you are going to blame the Cop that got shot in the face because he just happened to be there to intercept a bullet?
I think maybe you should follow your friends lead. End it now and put us all out our misery. Go ahead.

Ghostryder wrote:

flyking138==you are a total and complete idiot. Truly you are. How can you sit and think the Cops are to blame when they reacted to your dead friends actions. And, remember this, he took his own life because he was too cowardly to face his punishment.
The world is a better place because he is not in it! Sorry that the family has to see this, but you are defending a person that made his own choices, and the last one he made was to end his life. I suppose you are going to blame the Cop that got shot in the face because he just happened to be there to intercept a bullet?
I think maybe you should follow your friends lead. End it now and put us all out our misery. Go ahead.

Well said. Although, I am not so sure when Jason took his AK47, put it to his chest, and said goodnight forever that would necessarily be considered a 'cowardly act', and here is why I state this.

I believe that he knew deep down what he would be facing if he were to be captured alive, which would most likely have been the next 40 to 50 years in prison. Being realistic, objective, and considering the nature of his crime, I seriously doubt that the inmates would have messed with him. As a matter of fact, they most likely would have looked up to him, so that wouldn't have been an issue.

Other than the fact that he was 37, and would have eventually died in a prison medical facility from old age, what he would have had to worry about the most would have been what the correctional officers had awaiting for him, both during and after his transfer.