Our prayers and sympathy go to the families and comrades of the officers Pslain by a paroled con in Oakland:

Police say the fourth Oakland police officer shot on Saturday has died at a city hospital.Oakland police spokesman Jeff Thomason says 41-year-old Officer John Hege died Sunday at Highland Hospital after being gravely wounded during a traffic stop.

Authorities say a 26-year-old parolee opened fire on Hege and 40-year-old Sgt. Mark Dunakin after they pulled him over around 1 p.m. on Saturday, killing Dunakin.

Suspect Lovelle Mixon was slain later that afternoon in a gunfight with police that left two more officers dead. Thomason identified those officers as 43-year-old Sgt. Ervin Romans and 35-year-old Sgt. Daniel Sakai.

No getting around it; it’s a tragedy.

Boy; it’s a good thing California, and especially Oakland, clamp down hard on the rights of law-abiding Californians to defend themselves; goodness only knows how bad this tragedy could have been otherwise.

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