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  • WA: Two Dead: Party Crashers or Home Invaders?

    01/05/2015 3:25:45 AM PST · by marktwain · 18 replies
    Gun Watch ^ | 4 January, 2015 | Dean Weingarten
     After the gunfight on New Year's Eve A saying that has become  common on the Internets is "When seconds count, police are only minutes away".   I wonder what the response time would be on New Year's Eve, when police resources are stretched especially thin.  Could you expect it to be longer for an unincorporated part of King County, Washington state, served by the Sheriff's department?  How long would it take for police to respond to a trespassing violation? In this tragic story out of Renton, Washington, it does not appear that the homeowner had much choice.   He was 50...