I made my comment in the context of a situation such as this one. Alarm going off, police on high alert. We don't know if he was followed, whether there was lighting,whether or not the officers told him drop his weapon, etc. There is not enough information to draw any conclusion, though some here are stating as facts, things I saw nowhere in the article nor the TV video.VMI77 wrote:Seriously? On MY PROPERTY? Then we may as well all be disarmed if the police can come on our property and kill us just because we have a gun ---which btw, is not illegal. On occasion I wander around my property in the dead of night with an AR15 in hand --I don't think that gives the police the right to shoot me. Also, the accounts say he was standing in his garage, not wandering around. Here's what we know for sure, as most of the comments following the article reflect: if the situation was reversed, and this man, on his OWN PROPERTY, had mistakenly shot a police officer wandering around in the dark with a gun in his hand because he felt "threatened," he'd be in jail right now, he'd be charged with murder, and he'd go to prison. It wouldn't matter that he felt threatened, that it was dark, that he didn't realize they were police, that it wasn't intentional, or that he was on his OWN PROPERTY.puma guy wrote:Wandering around on your property with a visible weapon in the dead of night is certainly not advisable.
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- Wed May 29, 2013 7:28 pm
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- Tue May 28, 2013 9:39 pm
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Very tragic incident. When all the details come out it will be interesting to discover what actions the officers took to deal with the alarm across the street before ending up such a great distance from that house and the street, down what looks like a long driveway to a garage that faces to the rear of the victims property. I doubt there is any video so we'll only have one side of the story. Usually there's a generalized statement such as the actor wouldn't drop his weapon or used it in a menacing way. Only heard how tragic it was for the victim/family and the police officers from the spokes person. Wandering around on your property with a visible weapon in the dead of night is certainly not advisable.