Don’t be this guy, arguing with an officer during a stop.

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  1. shogun

    shogun Road Train Member

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    Ride the Lightning, Kill Em All, Master of Puppets, and Justice for All are awesome albums.
     
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  3. SteerTire

    SteerTire Road Train Member

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    You’ve posed a difficult question, for 2 reasons.

    #1 You imply that upon discovering an intruder, that he be approached with the threat of deadly force.

    #2 I’ve always taught my kids that, if you pull a weapon. Your next action MUST be, drop the hammer. If you’re in so much fear for your life you feel you need the gun. The moment after pulling it, is not the time to be rethinking the situation. That time has long since passed.

    In this case, I would probably conceal the weapon (in hand) out of sight. If the intruder done anything that I perceived as threatening me with bodily harm. I’d point and click.

    Every scenario is different, but the same. The end result is always the same. The situation either de-escalates, or escalates.
     
  4. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Key word in my post is HOME. Someone has to die.
     
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    Is he armed?
     
  6. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Irrelevant.
     
  7. freebeertomorrow

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    nothing wrong with metallica, i am (and have been) a huge fan. i was referencing “don’t tread on me” in the background as he embarks on a fruitless journey of arguing with government officials. misuse of a good music.
     
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  8. freebeertomorrow

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    at no point does destruction of property = destruction of life. i agree 100% with blair on the option of life. when the tide turns from robbery to assault is when it starts getting fuzzy.
     
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  9. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    If blair was looking down the barrel at you and asked you who the F you were and why the F you were in his home and you responded with the above, how do you think he would respond?
     
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    He's remembering the Great Avatar Wars of the Nineties.
     
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