>If you do your civic duty and cooperate with the legitimate authorities and offer your license and registration and answer Constitutionally sanctioned questions honestly, there is a great distance between, “License and registration”, and the use of lethal force.
Ok, let’s use a bit of formal logic here.
{A -> B, read IF A THEN B, says nothing about B when A is false.}
“IF you do your civic duty and cooperate with the legitimate authorities [THEN] there is a great distance between, “License and registration”, and the use of lethal force.”
This says nothing about the case of when civic duty or non-cooperation is done; in fact by itself it would mean that there is only a great distance between ‘license and registration’ and the use of lethal force when you are cooperating!
Don’t you see how horribly dangerous such a mentality is?
>When a deputy approaches you at 4:40 in the morning after you crash your car into a locked school yard gate, he calls to you to stop, but you flee only to return to the vehicle to try to drive away with two young girls strapped in the back seat- you are going to be shot.
Ah, so there is no need for a judge, or jury, or warrant, or hell even allegations!
All an officer has to do is shoot first and then concoct some trail of COULD HAVE and MIGHT HAVE reasoning?
Which part of that justifies lethal force, anyway? (Or is it some magic combination of all of them?)
— Being up at 4:40? (Because nobody who is law-abiding is active at those hours! Forget about night-watchmen!)
— Crashing into a gate? (Because nobody who is a law-abiding citizen ever has an accident! Forget about any inclement-weather/accident correlations!)
— Him telling you to stop and you not complying? (Because nobody might possibly not hear you! Forget about deaf people.)
— Having two young girls in his car? (Because no law abiding male citizen would have females in his vehicle! Forget about a family coming home from a long road-trip!)
I did not spend near a decade in the Army to defend THAT.
If this dangerous, selfish, moron wanted to speak to a judge or answer a warrant, he was granted the opportunity. All he had to do was obey the deputy and he would have had an opportunity to be heard by a judge.
Instead he obviously had the same ego that you have and believed that laws do not apply to him. He endangered his daughters and community because he didn’t have to follow the same laws that the rest of us do.
You have some sort of freakish Occupy Wall Street hatred for law enforcement- more power to you. Crank up the ham radio and enjoy your survival rations. I instead will live on earth.
Don’t bother responding. I’m done with your ignorance.