Gun enthusiast who shot police chief four times during raid walks free

Daily Mail Online ^ | January 18, 2015 | Ashley Collman

[MaxMax]

That's soft armor. Check out AR500armor.com plates. I brought one to the last TX shootout
we had and we took some shots at it with that Caliber, didn't do anything but knock
the Frag Mitigation Coating off, as intended. Most officers I see use the plates.
It's very affordable now for just about everybody. $400 gets you a full concealment
plate setup including side plates. I keep one in my truck.

I don't know what armor the Chief was wearing or the Cal of weapon the
homeowner was using. I'm guessing a pistol, and Soft will defeat pistols.

/Salute

[SgtHooper]

Gas stove.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

The bootlickers are outnumbered these days by those who oppose the police state.

Maybe, but use the "donutwatch" keyword and you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the mods. Last time I posted a thread and added the keyword, my thread was zotted and I was logged out.

And, that wasn't the first time.

[Liberty Valance]

Whats his freeper handle?

[Celtic Conservative]

Unless he was wearing a kevlar codpiece. Which, suprisingly, they do make. They call it a “groin protector”. Bulletproof boxers.

CC

[piasa]

Or a firecracker.

[piasa]

Only seven and they call him an enthusiast?

[Begin]

Should’ve shot him in the head.

[cynwoody]

Those are racially charged posts?

Sounds more like an abbreviated news summary to me.

[cynwoody]

So he was the victim of a SWATting?

That would be the phone company's fault.

You see, there is a small problem with caller ID. Namely, it can be spoofed. (Ask Prince Rupert.) E.g., a hacker can call 911 showing your phone number on the 911 operator's screen and spin any story he sees fit. Then the 911 operator sends the SWAT team to your house, primed for action based on the hacker's story. The result is likely to be interesting.

Nevertheless, the ultimate responsibility lies with the SWAT team. They have the authority and the force. If they do wrong, they deserve whatever happens. If they shoot the homeowner by mistake, that is a crime. Looks like this case, against all odds, turned out OK.

[Pollster1]

Police say a man claiming to be Horton called 911 early Thursday, saying there was a bomb set to detonate at the Community Action Center, where the Sentinel Public Schools has their head start program. However, an analysis of the call later revealed that the call did not originate from Horton's home.

They need to work on the capability to check a call's origin quickly, and they should without exception do so before the very few no-knock raids that are permitted. In any case, even a bomb threat doesn't justify this warrantless no-knock raid.

Sentinel's Mayor Sam Dlugonski has known Horton his whole life and described him to the Oklahoman as a 'gun enthusiast' and 'survivalist', adding that he seemed 'on edge'. Horton's neighbor David Delk gave much the same description, saying he had a general mistrust of government . . .

Apparently, liberals cannot imagine why the victim of this no-knock raid would have a general mistrust of government.

All I see in the article is a man who does less boating than most of us on FR who used to have firearms, and several people who are very lucky that this over-enthusiastic police raid didn't lead to tragedy.

Okay, he's a bit of a freak, and not well-trained. Nail polish? Finger on the trigger? Those aren't crimes, just bad taste and stupidity.

[Balding_Eagle]

This has me very curious, there isn’t a single conservative that I’m aware of who is OK with them.

Could you PM some members names?

[saleman]

Not off the top of my head.

Just check out any of the threads containing keywords like “stop and frisk”, DUI checkpoints, Border patrol checkpoints, ATF threads can sometimes be good. Things like that. Heck I’m not going back and reading all the posts in this thread but I’d be surprised if there hasn’t been a few defending the raid on this guys house. If not, then things are really looking up.

[Blue Collar Christian]

This no knock raid crap has got to end. It gets police and innocents killed unnecessarily.

The guy’s lucky the police didn’t shoot him Sam Peckinpah style.

[Balding_Eagle]

I’m not going to bother looking either, for the simple reason that, unless the posters is an infiltrator, and there are always a few, there isn’t going to be a single defender of warrantless searches to be found.

Any infiltrator who does defend such a thing will be attacked mercilessly and zotted.

[101stAirborneVet]