A lot of people — innocent people — and their pets have wound up dead during no knock raids in recent years in this country.
A no knock raid is when officers can serve a warrant on a house without notifying the residents first. At all. Period. Without ringing the doorbell, calling first, a knock, nothing. Police typically do it in the middle of the night or in the wee hours of the morning, too, when people are more likely to be asleep. The majority of these raids aren’t even for violent crimes or imminent threats to life and limb, but drug crimes.
So a lot of people tend to die. It’s a pretty stupid way to enforce laws.
We live in a country where the citizenry are armed. If it’s the middle of the night and you hear someone busting through your front door, and if you exercise your 2nd Amendment rights by owning a firearm, your first reaction is going to be to draw that firearm to protect yourself and your family.
If you do that when a burglar or worse is breaking into your house to possibly cause harm to you and your family and property, then you’ve done the wise thing. That’s called self-defense.
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This is why drug dealers in Detroit, Los Angeles, Chicago, all your bigger cities, use booby-traps! Open a door wrong or window and Boom! Hand grenade goes off!, then there are the spikes driven into boards under the windows, for piercing boots, and dangling fish hooks dipped in human waste to provide infection, real drug dealers have to protect their product from theft, so this is what they do. No knock is very stupid!
ReplyDeleteNo knock should be outlawed.
ReplyDeleteKnock knock jokes should be banned.
ReplyDeleteANY home invader deserves to be shot
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