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S_B_Jackson

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6. I suspect, this is to address the possibility of
Wed Dec 31, 2014, 12:06 PM
Dec 2014

a person awakened in the dead of night by what he/she perceives as a home-invasion burglary by armed individuals uses a legally-owned, firearm in a reasonable manner to defend themselves........What in actual fact has happened is police (who may or may not be at the correct address at all) exercising a no-knock warrant in the wee small hours of the morning.

Perhaps if police departments and the governmental entities which control them hadn't gone so far in militarizing police departments and in allowing the cancer of SWAT enforcement of minor offenses under the auspices of no-knock warrants to metastasize, such a bill wouldn't be necessary. A sad commentary on where we are as a society...

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