Here's some interesting info for you guys: I use to live in SoCal... I was working about 4 blocks away when all that happened. You could see the swarm of news and PD helis buzzin' around. It gets better:
I later took a job with Walt Disney Imagineering (don't get me started), and worked side by side with, and got to be good friends with, none other than Mike Horen and Barry Golding, the two civilians in the parking lot. They had gone out for lunch, and like most of us do, stopped at an ATM to get some cash for the meal. Mike has one helluva bad scar on the inside of his left tricep (exit wound)... That's what a bunch of 7.62 Russkie short and surgery will get ya.
Now, where's this going, you ask? I own guns. Lots of other guys we worked with owned 'em too. This came up now and then. Mike and Barry never had a negative word to say about private firearms ownership. They didn't try to sue any gun makers, or the police for letting them get shot, etc. A testament to intelligence and human resolve (not to mention basic f&*(ing common sense), IMUWO.
However, some cop, who gets wounded doing his job, tries to sue a gun maker for getting wounded in the line of duty. What's going on here? LEO's don't they tell you what could happen when you take the job? (Disclaimer: This is not meant to bash LEO's of any sort. You guys have my utmost respect, and I'd never want to do your job.) Equally disturbing is some f"%$ing ambulance chaser of an attorney trying to sue the LAPD for letting that sorry-ass die. (Disclaimer: This is meant in every way to offend any criminal or would-be wrongful user of an SUR). Hey, guess that (was) life in L.A.
Rant mode off.