So you’re driving your truck delivering papers like you always do and the cops open fire on you without warning.
This raises a lot of valid 2nd Amendment questions to me.
1. Do you have an obligation to die in this circumstance?
2. If you shoot back are you now wrong?
3. What if you do shoot back and kill the criminals who fired on you? Are you guilty of anything other than self-defense?
4. This incident puts the lie to the notion that only cops have the proper training to use guns.
On an aside, this incident (one of several, so far) underlines the core of Dorner’s complaints about the LAPD and excessive use of force, doesn’t it?
Never mind shooting back, what if you correctly decide that somebody is trying to kill you, so you floor it? Now they won’t stop until they run your bullet-riddled truck off the road, and if it rolls over too, hey, that’s what happens when you run from the police.
It sure as hell does........
Fox had a shrink on analyzing Dorner. He’ in her view, a true narcissist. He description made him sound creepily like Obama. Over inflated ego, sense of being wronged in his life over and over, desire to get revenge in great excess of any wrong done to him. I read the manifesto and this analysis seems spot on, and murderer that he is, he writes well.
Another interesting scenario, check out this video in the Desert of a woman accosted by San Bernadino (California) Sheriff’s (in a helo) for collecting rocks: