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To: MeganC
So what would’ve happened if a law-abiding citizen exercised their right to self-defense and opened fire on whoever it was that was USING A CHAINSAW to break into their home at 3am in the morning? This happens: http://abcnews.go.com/US/tucson-swat-team-defends-shooting-iraq-marine-veteran/story?id=13640112#.TymihoFxTms
47 posted on 02/01/2012 12:50:48 PM PST by JerseyanExile
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To: JerseyanExile

Heads up.

Bear in mind the SWAT raid of the Jose Guerena family home was to seize evidence only. The Guerena raid was the culmination of a twenty-month investigation. There was no arrest warrant and Guerena was only suspected of illegal activity. When he responded to the ‘break-in’ armed, he was killed. He never fired a shot and the weapon he had chosen to use in defense was found to have the safety engaged.

As a result of that raid a lawsuit in the amount of $20M was filed in August? 2011. No arrests of any of the others suspected of crimes have been made, or at least announced, in the local news reports.

Homes to the rear of the Guerena home were hit by rounds fired by the SWAT team. One can only imagine what might have occurred had shots been fired as randomly in this raid as when they were fired in the Guerena incident.

Here is the link to the Wiki background on the Guerena raid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Guerena_shooting

Yet these raids, along with the unintended consequences, continue.


62 posted on 02/01/2012 2:02:34 PM PST by chulaivn66 ("Liberals. We gotta have them around to provide entertainment. It's that old yin yang thingy again.")
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