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Cop: I'd Love to 'Bang down Your Door and Come for Your Gun'
American Thinker ^ | 3-12-2014 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 03/12/2014 5:40:48 AM PDT by servo1969

And to a poster named Cameron Smith, Peterson said, “I give my left n** to bang down your door and come for your gun.”

Of course, the conversation had become heated, causing Peterson to perhaps speak a bit more rashly than he would otherwise. And I’m well aware of the “good soldier” cop argument stating that theirs is not to wonder why, theirs is but to do or die (even if it kills constitutional rights). Hey, “I don’t make the laws,” says the dutiful constable, “I just enforce them.” But there’s a problem with this position. And this is why I want to give you, my friends in law enforcement, the reasoned, moral argument for “policeman nullification.”

Even good people can live lives of contradiction and entertain ideas that simply aren’t true. For instance, if you’re a cop, it’s easy to justify an action by saying that your job is only to enforce the law, especially since, on paper, this is certainly so. But the implication that you enforce every law, across the board, every time, without discretion is absolutely untrue and you, I and everyone else knows it. You don’t ticket everyone driving 31 in a 30 zone, and many times even more egregious law-breakers get off with a warning. Some laws aren’t applied at all, such as a parking law in my town an officer told me was on the books but that “we don’t enforce.” You use discretion all the time.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; connecticut; ct; guncontrol; gunrights; secondamendment; teaparty; tyranny; yesterday
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1 posted on 03/12/2014 5:40:48 AM PDT by servo1969
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2 posted on 03/12/2014 5:44:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: servo1969

Well that works both way, one (or more) of us could just as easily bang down yours....


3 posted on 03/12/2014 5:45:56 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Travis McGee

since when is “nut” a curse word


4 posted on 03/12/2014 5:47:47 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: servo1969
"I was only following orders".

The last statement made by many an SS officer as they were being led to the gallows.

5 posted on 03/12/2014 5:48:25 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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“I was only following orders” has not been an acceptable defense since the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
6 posted on 03/12/2014 5:53:57 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: apillar

There are probably a few old f@rts in a country of 315 million who just might have a souvenir or two just waiting to squeeze the clacker when this clown comes with his fellow gang members to rob and murder.


7 posted on 03/12/2014 5:54:08 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: servo1969

I love to shoot people that bust my door down.


8 posted on 03/12/2014 5:58:11 AM PDT by Crazieman (Are you naive enough to think VOTING will fix this entrenched system?)
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To: servo1969
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9 posted on 03/12/2014 6:02:26 AM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Travis McGee

I live in the town where this guy is a cop. There are a LOT of really pissed off people here, and they are not all new,instant felons because of Connecticut’s new unconstitutional “assault weapons and high capacity magazines” ban.

The know they will run out of cops before towns folk run out of guns if they try to do this.


10 posted on 03/12/2014 6:06:00 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad.)
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To: yldstrk
since when is “nut” a curse word

It's 2014, apparently telling a young girl she is "bossy" is now a bad thing. This ain't the world we grew up in.

11 posted on 03/12/2014 6:07:58 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad.)
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To: servo1969
Even good people can live lives of contradiction and entertain ideas that simply aren’t true. For instance, if you’re a cop, it’s easy to justify an action by saying that your job is only to enforce the law, especially since, on paper, this is certainly so. But the implication that you enforce every law, across the board, every time, without discretion is absolutely untrue and you, I and everyone else knows it. You don’t ticket everyone driving 31 in a 30 zone, and many times even more egregious law-breakers get off with a warning. Some laws aren’t applied at all, such as a parking law in my town an officer told me was on the books but that “we don’t enforce.” You use discretion all the time.

None of that has anything to do with it.

The Constitutionality of the law, and the respect one has for the natural law freedoms of your fellow Americans should be all the discretion one needs.

A person's attitude toward the Constitution and to those freedoms tell you everything you need to know about the character of that person.

12 posted on 03/12/2014 6:09:08 AM PDT by Washi (Stop Obama's War On Jobs)
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I’d love to hear the private discussions among the CT police about it.


13 posted on 03/12/2014 6:09:22 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: TADSLOS
"I was only following orders".

The last statement made by many an SS officer as they were being led to the gallows.

Yep, and if it comes to a fight, and God willing I survive it, I will happily operate the gallows all day every day while humming the Star Spangled Banner. Think about that - each and every one of you lib lurkers out there cheering for the trampling of our rights. When you lose, it will go very, very badly for you.

14 posted on 03/12/2014 6:12:11 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: servo1969

Remember during marksmanship training(Read: Recoil Therapy) face shots now replace torso shots.


15 posted on 03/12/2014 6:12:17 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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To: Travis McGee
I’d love to hear the private discussions among the CT police about it.

ME TOO! I'm sure there are some pretty heated discussions. I can't speak for the police, just us regular town folk, and you'd be pleased to know, at least in the circles I travel, not everyone here in deep blue CT is a government loving commie and there are a LOT of patriots willing to fight for their Constitutional rights no matter what it takes.

There are a lot of preparations being made, and if we become the next Lexington, I pray we are remembered similarly to those guys!

we are also aware there are preparations being made by those with much more money and lawyers.

16 posted on 03/12/2014 6:15:11 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I miss you, dad.)
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To: Travis T. OJustice

Cameron Smith, Peterson said, “I give my left n** to bang down your door and come for your gun.” ........

You may just have to do that and it may wind up being BOTh of your nuts and additional other parts. What a dumb ass!

He has got to be a liberal.


17 posted on 03/12/2014 6:25:34 AM PDT by DaveA37
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18 posted on 03/12/2014 6:38:40 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: servo1969
Hey, “I don’t make the laws,” says the dutiful constable, “I just enforce them.”

He can give that speech in the dock at Nuremberg.

19 posted on 03/12/2014 6:39:24 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: Travis McGee
I’d love to hear the private discussions among the CT police about it.

"I can't believe Peterson's in trouble again. Always running his mouth off. He's going to make it hard for me to get those new guns when the order comes down."

20 posted on 03/12/2014 6:44:22 AM PDT by LouAvul (In a state of disbelief as to how liberals destroyed America in a mere 40 years.)
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