[Rick Lee]

I was watching a documentary on the Secret Service two weeks ago. A retired agent was telling a story about guarding Ronald Reagan's motorcade coming through some small town when one of the onlookers, a teenager, raised what looked like a pistol and pointed it toward one of the vehicles. SS agent had his Uzi trained on him, was seconds away from killing this kid when he realized the kid had a squirt gun. They later found out the kid had done it on a dare. Amazing how they can show such restraint, yet local cops get a "man with a gun" call, which any equally crazy person could have made, and kill the guy without even verifying the gun. Unreal. Too bad the lawsuit won't be paid out of the cops' paychecks or pensions.