They Might Be Giants has a song about that, called, “Prevenge”
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I could dig up the statistics but i’m lazy but buying a gun immediately increases the owners likelihood of dying, it also dramatically increases the likelihood that the people they know to be shot or die. I am of the frame of mind of avoiding confrontation at all costs, but to me it seems that gun owners have the option to engage further into a confrontation regardless if its in self defense or not. I don’t say this as shit talking gun owners, its just the truth. Having a gun enables further aggression or an escalation of aggression even if intended or not.
That’s not something i’m interested in. To those here that carry, don’t take my statement as judgemental. But i certainly hope that you never have to use the gun to defend yourself.
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Police unions have fought hard to allow a “cool down period” before an officer is questioned. It gives them a chance to obstruct justice get their story straight, so the only official record is one other officers can corroborate. I’m pro union in most every case, but police unions are just another mafia group.
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It depends on the colour of their skin.
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Yup.
Cops get held to a lower standard of conduct than anyone else, given special treatment, are practically never charged with crime of any kind way below the background rate you’d expect. Kill lots of pets, kill lots of people, never have to sit in jail or prison waiting for court. And still they wonder why nobody trusts them.
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Not to mention letting them sober up. A police officer “exhausted” from a long day at work on the thin blue line is a lot more sympathetic figure than a drunk cop with a gun stumbling around.
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Please realize that it’s part of your privilege to assume that the police will even give someone that chance:
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Not that new.
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Oh, relax! If the police are breaking down their door, then my statement doesn’t really apply, does it?
Anyway…
My point is that the police don’t always knock or give someone a chance to deny them entry in the first place.
And then there’s the fact that unless we want to be housebound shut-ins, People of Color and others who are perpetually targeted by LEOs have to leave our homes sooner or later - many encounters with the police happen in public, during routine traffic stops, etc.
Long story short: simply saying “No warrant, no entry!” won’t protect most People of Color from a government entity that is essentially ‘above the law…’ not even while inside their legal domiciles.
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Apparently now she shot him because he “ignored her verbal commands”:
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What’s that, like 3 different stories now?
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{spoiler: no one dies.}
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Chapelle has an old bit where the talks about not wanting to call the cops because they’d likely arrest or beat him up in his own home thinking he was a burglar. Always sad to see its still relevant as ever.
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i don’t know if it’s normal but it is legal in texas. i was in a defensive driving course on the other end of a hall where a “self-defense” course was being conducted by the senior deputy from the sheriff’s office. at one point i heard the deputy say “if he falls outside your property line just drag him back across. we won’t cause a fuss if you were protecting your property.”
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Good to see sheriffs in Texas advocating for people to willfully tamper with a crime scene to their own benefit when they inevitably resort to using their gun as the first option in dispute resolution and then realize they just killed someone in a way that might be legally indefensible…
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My line of thinking as well. Was she drunk? Something doesn’t add up with this story.
But srsly, there are only questions if we’re trying to excuse the crime.
“Who,” “what,” “where,” “when,” and “how” are all quite clear.
Constructing a “why” that gets her off the hook, that’s the hard part.
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Now she claims she “gave verbal orders” before shooting him. So that’s alright. She’s the Filth. She broke into his home and told him what to do. If he didn’t obey he was obviously Blackan immediate threat and she was in fear.
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