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All too often, we see examples of cops breaking into the wrong house and shooting the family dog, or worse, killing a member of the family.
Well, Indiana has taken action to “recognize the unique character of a citizen’s home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant.”
This special amendment is no revolutionary new thought, only common sense.
Of course cops have already begun to fear monger the passage of this bill, “If I pull over a car and I walk up to it and the guy shoots me, he’s going to say, ‘Well, he was trying to illegally enter my property,’ ” said Joseph Hubbard, 40, president of Jeffersonville Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 100. “Somebody is going get away with killing a cop because of this law.”
Read more at thefreethoughtproject.com...
originally posted by: HUMBLEONE
Its time for EVERYONE to put ALL the weapons down! Enough!
(i) A person is justified in using reasonable force against a public servant if the person reasonably believes the force is necessary to: (1) protect the person or a third person from what the person reasonably believes to be the imminent use of unlawful force; (2) prevent or terminate the public servant's unlawful entry of or attack on the person's dwelling, curtilage, or occupied motor vehicle; or
originally posted by: HUMBLEONE
Its time for EVERYONE to put ALL the weapons down! Enough!
originally posted by: fixitwcw
a reply to: CALGARIAN
please correct your title, i thought you were talking about india (the country). you would get many more hits if it said indiana. that is, if this turns out to be true. would love to see this law passed everywhere, i have been harassed enough by crooked cops and would love to get away with sending them where they belong.
originally posted by: VoidHawk
originally posted by: HUMBLEONE
Its time for EVERYONE to put ALL the weapons down! Enough!
Well, thats the way its been in the uk for many years, and now the police are starting to roam are streets wearing guns!
So, no guns rule = guns only for the police.
originally posted by: jude11
a reply to: Lestranger
“If I pull over a car and I walk up to it and the guy shoots me, he’s going to say, ‘Well, he was trying to illegally enter my property,’ ”
Yup.
Not unlike the many instances cops have used this same tactic to justify their murders.
We should have the same rights.
Peace