Police say they're being "out gunned"

First off, my heart goes out to all the officers involved and their families, and I'm thankful for all officers and what they do for us. Second off, This story is very miss leading. Police have full auto assault rifles available to them if need be. It's very unlikely the perp had a full auto assault riffle. In fact, We don't know what guns the police had in this situation and we don't know what the perp used. But I know what the police have available. Six cops got shot by a pot head; So let's blame it on the AK because their so evil. People, don't worry, police are NOT out gunned by criminals. This story is more Brady Bunch Kool Aid; don't drink it up!

Yet another law enforcement officer dies while attempting to uphold a failed public policy that has triggered the worst crime wave in history. Yet another law enforcement officer dies while attempting to prevent a citizen of this 'once proud and free' nation from choosing to self-medicate with one of God's most amazing plants. Yet another law enforcement officer dies in order that unconscionable Transnational Corporations, and their Media Enablers, can continue to abuse, addict and poison us for obscene profits. According to the CATO Institute, ending prohibition would save roughly $41 billion of expenditure while generating an estimated $46 billion in tax revenues. Prohibition has helped fill our Prisons and Jails to capacity. Violent criminals, murderers, rapists and child molesters are released early to create space for so called 'drug offenders'. Half of court trial time and also a huge chunk of police officers time is pointlessly wasted. Enormous untaxed profits from illegal drugs fund multi-national criminal empires which bribe law enforcement authorities and spread corruption faster than a raging bush fire. Prohibition takes violent criminals and turns them into multi-billionaires whilst corrupting even entire countries, including our own. Our drug laws are also funding the Taliban and al-Qaeda whose illegal opium profits allow them to buy weapons and pay it's fighters more than $300 a month, compared with the $14 paid to an Afghan policemen. Maybe many of the early Prohibitionists did not really intend to kill hundreds of thousands worldwide, or put 1 in every 30 American adults under supervision of the correctional system. But similar to our "Great Experiment" of the 1920s, the prohibition of various other drugs has once again spawned rampant off-the-scale criminality & corruption, a bust economy, mass unemployment, a mind-boggling incarceration rate, a civil war in Mexico, and an un-winnable war in Afghanistan.

And what, exactly, is an assault rifle? What this biased story fails to mention is that the typical rifle used to hunt deer , elk, etc is just as powerful than an AK-47 and far more accurate. As a responsible firearm owner who owns several civilian versions of military rifles, I resent this story's implication that it's the weapon that is evil and its anti-gun undertones.

like Holder using fuzzy math this is not a huge increase. Out gunned? Police killed almost 600 citizens in 2011. Only 15% of those dead actually shot at police .

Only 68 were killed by gunfire. Of those, a number were friendly fire where the officers were shot and killed by fellow officers on accident. 64 were killed in traffic accidents. While the loss of any officer to a criminals weapons is too many, figures should be used in press reports responsible instead of trying to stir up an anti gun agenda. (See Link below for correct story) http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/12/28/us-police-fatalities-up-13-percent-in-2011-to-173/