[takenoprisoner]

"The Police identified themselves and the perp grabbed a gun"

How you know? Because the thugs who shot him said he did?
Since when does a guy who goes to school, works two jobs, and plans a vacation to visit his grandmother go for a gun over marijuana?

But you're right in the end. Any American today who doesn't realize the today's cops will effect your death over the simplist of violations is a friggin idiot.

[ARepublicanForAllReasons]

We (ie, mainly the conservatives) asked for law and order, and this is part of what we got. I have the greatest trepidation about this kind of activity, because it is certainly far, far out of bounds for the enforcement even of laws that I would agree with. Certainly I feel no threat at all from a fellow with two ounces of weed in his own home.

On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of action I want if/when it comes to busting terrorist cells here in the USA. But just think of the outcry from the Muslim community if a guy named Jamal had two ounces of explosives in his possession and went to fetch a gun, with the same results... we would be seeing OpEds in the NYT condemning the 'Nazi' tactics.