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To: GreenStreak
"Maybe he saw the consequence of not taking the dude down would be his demise."

That's a dangerously arbitrary standard...Imagine this hypothetical...a string of armed robberies/home invasions has occurred in an area. Unbeknownst to a traveling salesman the neighborhood is on edge, and the salesman approaches a door knocks, and reaches for his pocket to produce a business card. The homeowner draws, fires and kills him because *maybe he saw the consequence of not taking the dude down would be his demise.* Think the homeowner would be getting off as easily as this cop?

217 posted on 05/30/2010 10:26:09 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack
The homeowner draws, fires and kills him

The cop did not draw, fire and kill the dude. Bad example.

218 posted on 05/30/2010 10:29:25 AM PDT by GreenStreak
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To: Joe 6-pack

Ok. What would you do. You are apprehending a suspect and as you near him he reaches for his pocket. What do you do?


219 posted on 05/30/2010 10:30:40 AM PDT by GreenStreak
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To: Joe 6-pack

And it seems to me if I could know those men better, I
should become attached to them, as I do to men in
my own lands,
It seems to me they are as wise, beautiful, benevolent,
as any in my own lands;
O I know we should be brethren and lovers,
I know I should be happy with them.


221 posted on 05/30/2010 10:33:09 AM PDT by GreenStreak
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