Comment on Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHe 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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”.
baines@lemmy.cafe 3 weeks ago
you come to his door late at night?, don’t announce yourself, multiple unknown people in a group, shine a light in his face and it’s his fault the reaction is to point his gun?
this shit should have been done in broad daylight
the beginning of your second sentence sure is correct lol…
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
offspec@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about brownies
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I agree with this. We shouldn’t be opening doors with guns out.