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Originally Posted by Tactical Jackalope
Yes. Cops equate "gun" with "crime" most of the time. It's an old school police academy teaching that needs to be done with already.
You will get held at gun point, a knee in your back, handcuffed, searched, and ID'ed in most cases if you have just shot and killed someone. Self defense in our minds is still a homicide, regardless.
Then if things aren't clear enough your taken into questioning either at the station or the back of the squad car depending. By one, two, or three officers to see if the stories match each time.
Your gun is taken away 99.9% of the time. It's nearly impossible to get back. It can take as fast as 6 months to a year. Or as long as never. And when you get it back it's engraved with a serial number from the department's evidence roster.
That's after you're cleared of criminal and civil charges.
Then you could have the internal struggle of second guessing. So it's a crappy situation all around.
The best gun fight is the one we avoid.
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Little dramatic, don't you think? If LEO called to my house at 2am, and walk in to find gun on table, bad guy laying on floor, me in my jammies, hands up..don't think it'll be 'knee in back, handcuffed' gig..
Confiscate gun, probably. Me go down to station for a statement? Undoubtedly. Investigation, most assuredly but I really doubt I would be arrested. Never happened to me..probably never will..
Avoid if possible but.....Break in when you are home in middle of the night..how many here have a 'night stand' gun for this very reason? It's not there to brandish, but use. YMMV and all that.
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Colorado's “Make My Day” law gives gun owners the right to shoot and kill an intruder in self-defense if they believe the person intends to commit a crime and use physical force, “no matter how slight.” ... Under the law, fists can be deemed deadly weapons that justify shooting.
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