Let me ask you a question: If you are at work at 10:30 at night, and your wife calls you and tells you she hears some noises outside, would you tell her to go outside, and check it out?
It’s 0130 here. I’m in my backyard smoking a cigar, in my pajamas. I’m enjoying a sniff of some really fine Scotch, too.
What should I do if I hear a strange noise? What of my dogs start barking? Should I cower in my home? What should I do if I run into some stranger?
This idiot cop should be tried criminally. He should also be vulnerable to a civil suit, which in a rational country, would leave him dead broke and starving.
Cops are just practicing for when obama gets re-elected and puts his 250,000 man army to work on all of us.
I would encourage my wife to take the 12 gauge if she did go out, but it depends on where you live. She had every right to go into her own yard at night or any other time. As for your stupid statement that a LEO saw a “stranger” and shot her, the only stranger in that yard was the LEO you frickin’ idiot, it was HER yard.
Yes.
She has a shotgun and knows how to use it.
And she has children to protect.
And living in a rural area the deputy is only 20 minutes away at best.
What if you had went outside instead Cowboy? I would bet if this had been happening at Noon the same results would have happened because the office was either paniced or startled and got off a Barney shot. It could have also been a kid coming home from work at Mickey'D's. Stupid of the kid then as well huh?
Believe it or not many women are firearm trained for self defense. If she had paniced & shot the uniformed officer outside her home thinking he was a burglar would you be here defending her? Somehow I seriously doubt it.
She thought her Ex was outside her home and felt safe enough to go check. That's why she went outside. Now obviously she was not scared of the EX as she would have not went outside right?
One of the most basic & fundamental rules in firearm safety is BE CERTAIN OF YOUR TARGET!!! The blame falls on the officer. 100%