'The Pennsylvania State Police obtained a search warrant. They found a bullet-proof vest, several marijuana plants, bags of loose marijuana, a cigar tube full of marijuana seeds, other containers with seeds a spiked club, a knotted tree branch, three rifles, a 12-gauge shotgun with three live shells, a Marlin 30-30 rifle, a Ruger M77 bolt-action rifle, a Winchester M94 lever-action rifle, a Rossi .38-caliber revolver, various bullets and shotgun shells, smoking pipes, a bong, a dufflebag filled with ammunition, a club, keys, a metal tube with white residue, a grinder, a scale and two safes.My bad - I should have been more specific. I meant someone of the same species.
"We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our power..... the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."
--Patrick Henry, to the Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775
Uh, the cop's boss said "Shoot 'em" not knowing that the cop only had his taser out.
Most law is made based on cases at the margin.
It's apparently an endemic problem.