[Moonman62]

“It isn’t, however officers do have a right to defend themselves.”

So do citizens.

Yes they do, however they don't have a right to point a weapon at officers serving a valid warrant.

[Echo4C]

They absolutely do. When you mature you’ll learn the difference between what’s legal and what’s ethical. Breaking into someone’s house when there are superior alternatives is just plain stupid.

[Fido969]

Yes they do, however they don't have a right to point a weapon at officers serving a valid warrant.

The cops were wrong about the shots fired, they were probably wrong (OR LYING) about the weapon being pointed at them as well.

Immediately after the incident the wife was locked in a room with police investigators, and she said the SWAT members dropped a gun near her husband after he was killed.

[muawiyah]

The Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger, ALWAYS answered his door with a pistol in his hands.

One night some DC cops/Capitol Police/etc. stopped by his house regarding some disturbance in his neighborhood.

They knocked. He answered the door with the safety chain up. They didn't shoot. He didn't shoot.

With or without a warrant the cops are not entitled to just shoot somebody holding a firearm. A homeowner is not supposed to just shoot a cop knowing that he's a cop.

Now, somebody want to tell me Justice Burger was WRONG to have failed to shoot the warrantless cops at his front door? Were they wrong to have failed to shoot him seeing that he was holding a gun?