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  1. #641
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    Quote Originally Posted by orissa View Post
    And he could have killed the cops with a twitch of his fingers. What if he had shot first, would you be defending him? How were the cops to know he wasn't some crazy nut who was going to shoot them?

    Pointing a gun at people with guns is a good way to get killed.
    In most normal country you are not allow to use more force then situation requires to protect yourself. If somebody knock on your in the night you do not have the right to have gun in your hand then you open, but in US you have all type of law like that your home is your castle and you have the right to defend it and you have no obligation to retreat, technical you can blast a person because he is trespassing and you feel threatened.

    The police did not identified themselves so technical he did have the right to have a gun in his hand according to the law. Personally I think you have right to self-defence but it must be proportionate to the threat.

  2. #642
    Quote Originally Posted by Ruthless View Post
    I think we are just following your example. You have a lot more experience with kids using guns at school...

    And after this idiocy i would like to get back to the original point. I think that there is something wrong if people have to open their doors with loaded firearms. You really do not see anything wrong with that? We really do not have to do that in here and there are a lot of countries that are the same as us.
    No, I don't see anything wrong with it. We trade security for freedom. You trade freedom for security. Differing philosophies. I like ours just fine.

  3. #643
    Quote Originally Posted by Purlina View Post
    And when they bust your door in? If they don't identify themselves as officers should you should be unable to defend yourself or would it at that point be okay to point the gun at them?
    Listen.

    No one is saying the officers are blameless.

    No one is saying the system is flawless.

    But there are assholes calling them murderers for not wanting to get shot by a suspect in an attempted murder case. They went to the residence expecting to find someone who already tried to kill another person. They found a guy with a gun. The guy with the gun got shot. Get off your fucking high horse.

  4. #644
    Police are looking less like police officers and more like storm troopers these days, specially after 9/11. They're nothing but thugs with a license to kill, these guys are pretty much wiping their asses with the constitution.

  5. #645
    Quote Originally Posted by tiporispit View Post
    That would be really strange to order a pizza, then not expect the delivery person to show up at your door. Did he call the local Chinese restaurant and order 3 armed police officers with a side of unidentified that morning? Then you're talking apples and oranges.
    Did you even take the time to read the whopping 50 words I wrote? IF THE DELIVERY GUY KNOCKED ON THE WRONG DOOR.

    Also he apparently never tried to identify who was outside the door because even Rambo would have a hard time killing 3 armed and aimed gunmen, or he was just that stupid. This isn't a game where you have to call "UNO", it's real life. Don't open the door thug matrimony style is a lesson I think everyone can learn from, regardless of what time of night it is or who is on the other side.
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  6. #646
    Quote Originally Posted by Tinykong View Post
    I was talking in general terms, not specifically based on Florida law, but if you want to limit the scope of the discussion to merely Florida, that's fine, we'll go there.

    784.011 Assault.

    (1) An "assault" is an intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with an apparent ability to do so, and doing some act which creates a well-founded fear in such other person that such violence is imminent.

    784.021 Aggravated assault.
    (1) An "aggravated assault" is an assault:

    (a) With a deadly weapon without intent to kill; or

    (b) With an intent to commit a felony.


    He was holding a weapon, proving inherent ability. He pointed it at the police, a felony. What part about this is so hard for you to understand? Not surprised you're looking for an out to break off the debate, you're wrong and you know it.

    By that standard it should be aggravated assult if a cop points a gun at me...

    Since it is a felony to point a gun at anyone....

  7. #647
    Quote Originally Posted by Bakis View Post
    Yup he made a poor decision, want to know another POOR decision? It also has to do with the keyword announce, guess you can figure it out.
    Cops don't need to announce who they are, in the case it may have saved a man's life. In others it can just as easily cost someone theirs. In my opinion it seems safer for them to not announce it. The man did not need to open the door. If he felt threatened, call the police. Period. Announcing he is armed and calling the police could have deterred whoever it was from actually forcing entry.
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    Quote Originally Posted by enohpi View Post
    But the thing is, we cant base our lives on our feelings.
    Of course you would rather your step dad takes the first shot, but does that make it right ? Not at all.

    If someone points a gun at a cop, in say, Denmark, Hungary, france or canada, the police would try to disarm the person, and only use deadly force as a last resort.
    In the united states the police resorts to deadly force as its default.
    Fuck me if somebody ever points a gun at me and I have to get up close to them and wrestle it out of their grip. It is common sense that pointing a gun at a cop is a move that will screw you for the rest of your life. And what can police do if they are 5 feet or meters away? Stun guns are a no go because as said earlier, they can set off firearms if the fingers contract. If they come closer they can get shot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gamingmuscle View Post
    Cops don't need to announce who they are, in the case it may have saved a man's life. In others it can just as easily cost someone theirs. In my opinion it seems safer for them to not announce it. The man did not need to open the door. If he felt threatened, call the police. Period. Announcing he is armed and calling the police could have deterred whoever it was from actually forcing entry.

    Safer for the cops, sure. For everyone else? Not so much....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lockon Stratos View Post
    Police are looking less like police officers and more like storm troopers these days, specially after 9/11. They're nothing but thugs with a license to kill, these guys are pretty much wiping their asses with the constitution.
    Police are fine. There are just bad incidents that the media likes to blow up. This involved 3 cops. There are a couple million in the entire US. Take all the horrible things you hear about cops in the media per year and lets say that is 150 total cops that messed up. Still an abysmally small percentage.
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  11. #651
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    Quote Originally Posted by s_bushido View Post
    Listen.

    No one is saying the officers are blameless.

    No one is saying the system is flawless.

    But there are assholes calling them murderers for not wanting to get shot by a suspect in an attempted murder case. They went to the residence expecting to find someone who already tried to kill another person. They found a guy with a gun. The guy with the gun got shot. Get off your fucking high horse.
    He's a murderer. How hard is it to understand for you? What the cops did was totally unacceptable.

  12. #652
    Quote Originally Posted by turlyonlost to tirion wtf View Post
    Sticking a gun at a cop the guys a fucking genius
    The article says that they did not identify themselves(the officers), so very likely the guy had no idea they were officers.

  13. #653
    Quote Originally Posted by s_bushido View Post
    Listen.

    No one is saying the officers are blameless.

    No one is saying the system is flawless.

    But there are assholes calling them murderers for not wanting to get shot by a suspect in an attempted murder case. They went to the residence expecting to find someone who already tried to kill another person. They found a guy with a gun. The guy with the gun got shot. Get of your fucking high horse.
    Except they failed horribly, they got the address WRONG. I mean, how incompetent and stupid is that? They did not properly announce themselves as police officers and banged on someone's door who responded appropriately.

    Cops are garbage, and it's not beyond them to plant drugs and weapons to cover up their screw ups. This guy could very well have been unarmed...

  14. #654
    Quote Originally Posted by Purlina View Post
    By that standard it should be aggravated assult if a cop points a gun at me...

    Since it is a felony to point a gun at anyone....
    I think you missed the word "unlawful." It's lawful for the police to use their weapons in their duty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LocNess View Post
    Fuck me if somebody ever points a gun at me and I have to get up close to them and wrestle it out of their grip. It is common sense that pointing a gun at a cop is a move that will screw you for the rest of your life. And what can police do if they are 5 feet or meters away? Stun guns are a no go because as said earlier, they can set off firearms if the fingers contract. If they come closer they can get shot.

    Nothing dealing with firearms is morally right, but humanity is existing how it is and it won't change anytime soon.
    well it works for just about every western country, so i dont really know what to tell you.
    Even in the united states, some of the police officers, actually manage to disarm people without sending multiple slugs at them.

    If he, as people are saying in this thread, had the gun drawn and pointed out the door, simply stepping away, would change the situation to a more manageable one.
    if they had Stepped out of his line of sight, (beside the door, standard) and announce their intent, this man could of, hell, would of lived.

    Simply shooting him because they could, is wrong.

  16. #656
    Quote Originally Posted by Tinykong View Post
    He aimed his weapon at the officer's, which is intent to do bodily harm or kill. There is no purpose for pointing a gun at person other than to harm or kill them, or to make them perceive the imminent likelihood that you will harm or kill them. That is the very nature of the crime of assault.

    If you want to claim police corruption, you need to come up with the evidence to show that there is, not just claim that there is and that the lack of evidence otherwise proves it.
    If I had 2 unidentified guys banging on my door in the middle of the night and demanding I open up, I'm going to assume some sort of threat. Especially if I live in a sketchy neighborhood, which I assume this was. Under Florida's stand your ground law, since he was somewhere he was legally entitled to be (his house), if he felt threatened he had the right to respond with immediate force.

    But past all that, the cops knocked on an innocent man's door and then killed him. By definition, they were doing it wrong.

  17. #657
    Quote Originally Posted by Purlina View Post
    And when they bust your door in? If they don't identify themselves as officers should you should be unable to defend yourself or would it at that point be okay to point the gun at them?
    No. If someone kicks your door in, I am pretty sure you have the right to defend yourself.
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    Quote Originally Posted by tiporispit View Post
    No, I don't see anything wrong with it. We trade security for freedom. You trade freedom for security. Differing philosophies. I like ours just fine.
    That is a fine way of thinking and i actually truly believe that citizens should have more firepower than the ones upholding the law. But you are wrong by saying that we trade freedom for security. We are top 8. in number of guns per capita in the world, that is not a small amount even though you have a lot more. But we still do not go to our door with loaded guns. There is no real need here.

  19. #659
    Quote Originally Posted by Tinykong View Post
    I think you missed the word "unlawful." It's lawful for the police to use their weapons in their duty.

    It's lawfull for citizens to use weapons for self defense...

  20. #660
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    In Britain we have these wonderful things called chain locks.

    If the victim had shouted who is it first are the cops not legally obliged to identify themselves?

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