Living alone was probably her idea as well so I am uncertain what you would have had the family do there. We do not give up the right to choose with age.

And finally, officers or freelance thugs, you point the gun in the direction it needs to go; which is to say muzzle toward the bad guys.

If you wish to terminate the discussion, say so or lapse back into silence. But don’t expect those of us who are concerned with liberty to pass by a statement like the one you made (“guns are bad”)

Are automobiles bad too? They weigh in at thousands of pounds and travel at injurious velocities and are frequently piloted by aging operators.

Perhaps since this is not to your taste you should limit your blog to pictures and discussions of lighthearted events like rock shows and things you feel comfortable holding forth on.

Starting to feel a little picked-on? Well, I’m afraid you have it coming, at least somewhat.

You have made the mistake of reading only one short version of the story. There is a much longer and more complete recounting of the events at

http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=33703&siteSection=1

that you should have read before commenting on the story. When you say, “If police were to come to my door… and I have commited no crime…I think I have a little more self control and wit about me than to start firing aimlessly at people, just because I am startled…” it makes you seem more than a little foolish, since what they did was, “…break…through the burglar bar door before breaking down her front door.” I think you’ll agree that’s a little more than “coming to the door” and “startling” her.

When you understate the events, then make a disparaging and vulgar comment about her age, you invite criticism for sloppy thinking.

“A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.” Shane, 1953

I do not know if this raid against her person and property was at 2:00 am. when it was dark. We do not know if this raiding party was visible to her as “police” in the lighting conditions, distracting noises, etc.

I automatically give her the benefit of doubt. She faced a raiding party.
She knew she was not in the Drug dealing business, or other Illegal activity. She knew she needed to take action into her own hands, if she was to have a chance to live at all.

The Police, if that is what they claim to be, were at the wrong address, plain and simple. Their authority to operate inside private property came ONLY after a valid search warrant was issued listing the CORRECT address at which to operate.

I fail to see how any initiating acts upon their part against the wrong address can be excused. They and their employer should be liable for damages times three and whatever a Jury wants to levy.

I fail to see how their initiating force event against this old lady can be excused at all. I hope her heirs end up owning everything those officers own for many decades to come.

There is no excuse for getting the wrong address in this day and age. Badge or no Badge. This shows a total lack of professional dedication to their duty to ascertain where they are and who they may be pointing their guns at.
Only arrogance can explain such sloppy, non professional work.

It stands to reason that if they were at the correct address, anyone firing on them would generate justification to return fire.

“IF” you knew for absolute certain you were entering the correct home that had a valid search warrant. They weren’t. They didn’t.

Face it. The officers involved _screwed the pooch_

The simple fact is, the policeman on the beat who knew everyone in his neighborhood would not have knocked on the wrong door.

This conspiracy against people called the war on some drugs has fuelled far too many injuries to communities and our culture.

Testosterone and training has something to do with this.

The lust to have Control over others has much to do with this problem.

The attitude you express is nothing short of arrogance: The idea that self-defence is unwarranted.

Canada isn’t exactly crime free – not that it ever has been. The fact – and you seem to go out of your way to ignore this – that the lady who was murdered by the local police, lived in part of town with a high crime rate.

You seem to exhibit the high and mighty liberal Canadian attitude, that you are somehow morally superior to most – if not all – Americans, just because you dislike firearms.

Why don’t =you= go and live where she did, and please tell the rest of us how safe you feel while doing so.

Please =DO= post a sign outside the doorway stating that you refuse to arm yourself, and that if attacked, why you’ll lay there and take it, nice pacified liberal Canadian that you say you are.

Or, are you just gonna stay in Canada, and point fingers at your neighbors across your southern border, with all the pretentiousness you can muster?

Tell you what: It’s really too bad that the old gal wasn’t a better shot, and managed instead shot dead the jackboots, every damned last one of them.

When the fascists come a-beating,
And people like you go a-bleating,
Afraid to question anything they say or do,
Then you will come to know,
What’s been planned for you and go,
And wonder why you didn’t act sooner,
Instead to have fought against them and Proclaimed a loud and emphatic ‘no!’

Guns are bad news for facists out to harm others.

Any other view of these things is statist, authoritarian nonsense.

What next? A military draft so the USA fedgov can continue massacring civilians in Iraq? Are we going to go back to the days of LBJ and how many kids did he kill, today?