[Grunthor]

If these people owned guns, they would likely still be sponging dead cop off the front porch.

[dashing doofus]

Probably, since this occurred in Rudy’s police state of NYC, they would be arrested since handguns are (for all practical purposes) outlawed in NYC, and long arms need to be stored locked and unloaded.

In NYC, you are supposed to call 911, then wait. That way the police know where to deliver the body bags and where to collect the evidence.

[CholeraJoe]

If these people owned guns, they would likely still be sponging dead cop off the front porch.

So true.

[antiRepublicrat]

If these people owned guns, they would likely still be sponging dead cop off the front porch.

Or the armored cops with automatic weapons would have slaughtered these innocent people for trying to defend themselves. It's happened, many times. The cops almost always get away with it: criminal charges not brought, civil suits dismissed.

[arthurus]

Recent history shows that to occasionally be the case but dead homeowner or citizen tenant is more often the case. And where the cop is killed self defense is normally prosecuted as a capital crime.