but...but...more guns are safer, right??First, don't answer your door if you don't already know who it is.
Second, if you can afford a firearm, you can afford a Ring doorbell camera. That in and of itself is going to keep a lot of riffraff away.
Third, if you do decide to answer the door and it's uniformed police, brandishing a firearm is probably a death sentence regardless of your rights, so you need to decide if exercising your second amendment right is more important than your life.
Oh man are you going to pissed when you find out how high the bar is to convict a cop of shooting someone.I don't see how you can say this. A citizen answers his door and is shoot down by the police. He committed no crime, he was in his own home. That's not a "good shoot" by any definition. It was at best manslaughter and criminal negligence.
"Better safe than sorry" isn't a legal president, and God save us should ever become one.
No, no it's not. It's sensible policy.Exactly. But isn’t holding police accountable liberal, or woke policy? This isn’t something conservative politicians will address. So just like school shootings the occasional dead homeowner is just the cost of the 2nd amendment and the right of the police to qualified immunity.
Scotus has determined as long as an officer believes they are in danger deadly force is ok. The reasonableness of their belief does not matter.No, no it's not. It's sensible policy.
People die from the mistakes of others every day. Those mistakes generally carry a financial burden, be it paid personally or through insurance. When those mistakes include an act of violence there is often a criminal charge as well. Police shouldn't be immune to those criminal charges.
2nd Amendment doesn't say shit about being responsible
Thats the million dollar question. In the question of the OP, he legally was in the right.Who judges responsible? In his mind he was.
No, more guns don't make people safer. Anyone who says so is an idiot or a liar.but...but...more guns are safer, right??
Which is why responsible gun owners fed up of these senseless deaths should be willing to give up their guns to help make a difference. Nope just selfishness and crickets from gun nutters.Anyone who says that 400+ million guns are going to be "bought back", or even more hilarious, confiscated, is delusional.
The only people where I live I have to worry about coming to my door are the Mormon's and 7th Day Adventist. White shirts and ties, long skirts...First, don't answer your door if you don't already know who it is.
Second, if you can afford a firearm, you can afford a Ring doorbell camera. That in and of itself is going to keep a lot of riffraff away.
Third, if you do decide to answer the door and it's uniformed police, brandishing a firearm is probably a death sentence regardless of your rights, so you need to decide if exercising your second amendment right is more important than your life.
That would be me.Eh, good chance if he had answered the door with a tv remote in his hand he would have been shot. Remember, he was shot with a gun from outside his home.
Responsible gun owners, by their very nature of being responsible, don't cause these senseless deaths. And you want them to give up something that is less dangerous than the average driver's car, and their ability to defend themselves when right-wing death squads start rounding up people they don't like?Which is why responsible gun owners fed up of these senseless deaths should be willing to give up their guns to help make a difference. Nope just selfishness and crickets from gun nutters.
Nowwwwwwwwwww you want to hold police accountable?No, no it's not. It's sensible policy.
People die from the mistakes of others every day. Those mistakes generally carry a financial burden, be it paid personally or through insurance. When those mistakes include an act of violence there is often a criminal charge as well. Police shouldn't be immune to those criminal charges.
Glad I was able to bring a smile to your day.Nowwwwwwwwwww you want to hold police accountable?
People like me find that laughable.
Glad I was able to bring a smile to your day.
For the record, this has always been my stance on the issue. I apologize if that doesn't fit your preconceived notions.
They don't obtain the levels of hysteria that grabs the attention of the target audience, the poorly educated, and the stupid.So by your own definition, they ARE making the news then...
That is some sound logic.
Then I answer the door in my tidy whities, and use my pistol to tap on the "No Soliciting" sing on my door, smile at them and slowly close the door.The only people where I live I have to worry about coming to my door are the Mormon's and 7th Day Adventist. White shirts and ties, long skirts...
Snakes on a Plane...Made of Guns.Lol I think that might actually make a pretty kick ass movie though.
Has anyone concluded the dead guy didn't have the judgement or intelligence to own a gun? He was a danger to himself and others.
Anyone remember the story a 14 year old black kid knocking on a door to ask for directions was greeted with gun shots. Yet 2A absolutists think it's ok to give any idiot a gun. How about passing mental acutity tests before granting gun licensees?
Thank God that kid survived and is on his way to a fruitful life.
Black teen who was shot at asking for directions graduates high school early, college-bound
Brennan Walker chose a Florida HBCU because he sought “to be surrounded by new people.” A Black teenager who made national headlines after being shot at by a white Michigan homeowner when he knocked on his door graduated from high school this weekend — a semester early. Brennan Walker was 14...news.yahoo.com
they might have one of those "no knock" policies.Snakes on a Plane...Made of Guns.
About the OP story: I can't help but wonder the fashion in which he answered his door. Brandishing it wildly and pointing it at the cops? Well I can understand why he got shot. But if he was simply holding it...
And how/why did the police not ID themselves? That might have prevented it as well.
First of all I HATE the new "quote" format sans visible HTML.New Mexico police shot and killed a man after they went to the wrong house while responding to a domestic violence call | CNN
Authorities are investigating the shooting of a man killed by police at his northwestern New Mexico home after they arrived at the wrong address, police said.www.cnn.com
Cops answer a domestic disturbance call at the wrong address.
Homeowner answers door armed. Ends up shot.
Were the police ever well-regulated?I don't know about y'all, but this is starting to feel like not a very well-regulated militia situation.
Yes, depending on locale.Were the police ever well-regulated?