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Originally Posted by manta49
Fair enough if you think its a good idea shooting at the police.
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None of us thinks shooting at the police is a good idea, I hope. None of us is advocating shooting it out with the police
intentionally.
manta49, your N. Ireland life and police view has very, very little to do with the reality of armed home invasions in the USA. Instead of telling us what the police in N. Ireland would do, or what you would do there; research armed home invasions, burglary and murder
in the USA. Claiming to be the police is one tactic home invaders use. Waiting to see if the guys in camouflage with weapons are really police could cost you your life. Think about it, if you are innocent (as far as you know) and law abiding, you have no reason to suspect they are real police.
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Originally Posted by 44 AMP
Yes, we all are ready to defend our homes from attackers (and rightly so), but shooting at the police (even when you don't know they are the police) seldom ends well, for anyone, and never ends well for everyone.
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44 AMP, most all of us are all prepared to defend our homes with deadly force. Shooting at the police would be tragic, no matter how it turned out.
Thats why this is so serious and in
my opinion, rises way above a simple mistake. Great pains should be taken to insure they have the right address and if their negligence causes serious injury, or death someone should be
severely punished.
All of the onus should fall on the invaders, not the invaded. Its hardly
police bashing to insist that they get the right address.