“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Posted on 10/18/2019 8:44:41 PM PDT by heartwood
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say, "His life, as well as the lives of his loved ones!"
Regards,
Such a person is not “protecting his house”. He is protecting his life and his family”s.
I don’t know where you live, but when you grow up you will learn that there is no such thing as a safe neighborhood. It may not have happened yet in yours, but eventually it will.
I live in a rural neighborhood that is composed of the nicest people you will ever meet, but there have been 5 murders since 1970 all within a few miles of our farm
The nearest town is one of the best in the southeast, but it has changed from a town that you once upon a time could walk anywhere in town at night with no fear to a town that has areas where you better not even drive through at night.
Ridiculing a person for wanting to protect his home is something I don’t understand.
Remember, when seconds count the cops will be there to save you in minutes.
Where I live there’s no LE coverage from 2330 until 0630, and even then they could be over an hour away.
If the citizen is protecting his life and the life of his family, he should find the best defensive position he can find and out of sight. Probably a bedroom which normally has drawn curtains would have been better. I am simply thinking defensively.
Do you expect him to retreat to the bathroom, drop trou, and start a $#!+?
Wear your chains lightly. Don’t count on me for help.
I admire your reasoned and rational response to another police shooting of a homeowner in his own home. I also admire your patience in explaining this to someone who obviously has no clue, or lost it is he ever had one. I’ll try to imitate your good example.
The thing is, police regularly are dealing with things which should be private.
How should we all know, that communications is private? You’re not actually thinking that would be the case?
I am NOT thinking that is a good assumption.
At all...
I’d have my finger on the trigger, but have my thumb on a newspaper.
Confidentiality is nothing weighed against police misbehavior of the type that gets people killed *by* the police for no good reason.
Also, there are departments who have this policy already and they don’t seem to have any problems. Access to the recordings can be restricted as they are now to prevent most access. That is not a reason to allow the police to run around unrecorded.
It should also be mentioned that there is a growing number of cops that have been *exonerated* by their bodycams.
Many police officers believe themselves fully justified in shooting anyone at a place to which they have been called for any reason if that someone has or might have something in his hand. I will not call police to my or anyone else’s house for any reason.
When I hear a racket in my yard at night I will be armed with gun in hand until I have an explanation for the noise.
There was no one else mentioned so "within his rights" would not appear quite so ignorant. We should not be writing from the PC stylebook here. "Zer rights" would be as bad.
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
I ccw when I walk at night in the small town I live in. I feel quite safe carrying my Glock 19. :)
“What did the citizen posses that he had to perform sentry duty to protect?”
Uhm....his life?
PBut I will have to say, what kind of citizen would draw a gun and brandish the weapon “protecting” his house?”
I object to your characterization of the actions of the homeowner. I see no reference in the story that anyone other than the police “drew” a weapon, which implies that they were walking around with a holstered weapon to begin with.
Secondly, characterizing someone as “brandishing” requires establishing intent to threaten or intimidate a person. Someone inside their residence is perfectly within their rights to anticipate that whatever chaos was occurring outside might soon be requiring them to defend themselves.
Lastly, are you really implying that homeowners have no right to protect their property and possessions?
They may indeed be exposed to more incidents, but they perform worse on a "per incident" basis. Armed citizens are far LESS likely to do an erroneous shoot than cops.
Cops have been brainwarped by all the mass assault "no-knock" hoopla. They need more and better training, and to get back to actually investigating better instead of ramboing ad-lib.
Never forget the Clutter murders (immortalized in the book and movie In Cold Blood). Nice town, quiet town, no trouble town, less than a couple hundred bucks in the house. And the whole family was brutally murdered. We are ALL targets to the bad guys, then can show up any time, for any reason, you don’t have to possess anything special. The COPS need to understand that THEY are acting like criminals when they wander around outside unannounced and we have a right to protection. Problem is too many believe in the “thin blue line” which divides the world into cops and scum, no middle ground. Which makes them extra paranoid, and also not too worried about killing civilians, because they’re scum.
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