Comment on Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 day agoYeah because it is 100% reasonable to answer a door while holding a gun. Something a normal person does. Completely sane.
Oh no wait, a normal person would just not open the door, or call the police themselves, or yell asking “who is it”. Imagine someone got hurt in an accident, they ran up to a house and got greeted by a handgun. Then the story wouldn’t be “fuck the cops” it’d be “fuck guns and the lunatic wielding them”.
Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I agree that opening the door was a mistake - I’m the type to check a camera when I hear a knock.
I think you’re missing the point of my comment. The firearm was likely pointed in response to the blinding light. Your hypothetical “person hurt in an accident” probably would not have had a gun pointed in their face.
By being unable to fathom why somebody would have the means to defend themselves when a stranger is at their door, you’re displaying a certain level of privilege. Must be nice.
Maalus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
He grabbed a handgun before answering the door. It doesn’t matter if he pointed it, if he waved it, or shown them how cool he looked with it. You don’t open the door with a gun in hand. What’s the A to Z of doing that? If it’s robbers, do you think you opening the door with a gun makes them magically disappear? What if it’s literally anyone else, because why would a robber knock on the door?
You call it a lack of privilege and I call it stupidity. Grabbing a gun means “I’m about to use deadly force”. Grabbing a gun to a situation that isn’t known to you is escalating everything to 11. As I said. If you are scared, you don’t open the door. Someone breaks in, sure, use that deadly force. But this isn’t that, this is a flashlight being pointed at a dude who knowingly got something that can end another person’s life, who overreacted and literally pulled a gun on cops.
baines@lemmy.cafe 23 hours ago
you have a right to hold am gun in your own home
if this were anyone but a cop this would be murder
Maalus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You have a right to hold a gun in your home. You don’t have a right to point said gun at people at your door. No matter if this was a cop or not.
Seriously, people lose all common sense once cops are involved because acab. When the reality often is “you are trying to defend a dude that pulled a gun on people who were at his door”.