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To: FNG
>1. My quote of the law applied to my belief the ATF rolled out of their trailers shooting first.

As you now know, that beleif was and is totally wrong.

>2. A bunch of heavily armed JBTs storming your home without identifying themselves first could be considered greater than necessary force, even if they were not shooting.

Please don't ever place any other person in jeopardy by that belief. First, just because you might claim didn't hear an LEO announce their intent to execute a search warrant, that in no way gives you a right to shoot them. Your assumption of what is force and excessive force is WAY off legal base.

If you want to shoot cops because you plan on claiming you didn't hear the legally required announcement, well, that's your decision. Please ensure no innocent person is in the house with you because they might be injured in ensuing gun battle that you have started.
56 posted on 01/19/2006 1:50:51 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)
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To: MindBender26

First, you cannot tell me I "know" my belief was wrong based on your interpretation of the video. It's possible you could change my mind if we sat down and thoroughly reviewed the film together, analyzing the evidences of gunshots. Let's drop the "who shot first" argument. Since you called BS on the Texas law that allows deadly force to be used on LEOs under certain circumstances, perhaps you dislike that law and wish it did not exist. I cannot speak for your opinion of that law, just merely speculate. Texas has had problems with "kick" robberies, where intruders have busted into people's front doors while they were still awake. The only point I'm trying to make is that Texas has some radical defesne laws compared to other states. I belive these laws comply with the intent of our founding fathers that the second amendment allows us to be secure in our homes, we and deserve due process. That is what seaparates the America from facist countries. Randy Weaver and David Koresh broke laws, but the LEOs in both cases made mistakes which resulted in unnecessary gunfights and resulted in Weaver and Koresh not getting due process of law. Randy Weaver's settlement and the Davidians lack on conviction proved the courts believed the LEOs were out of line in those cases. Don't assume I want to shoot cops because I believe in self defense rights under Texas state laws.


57 posted on 01/19/2006 4:56:32 PM PST by FNG
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