re: Florida deputy fatally shot US airman that answered the door with a gun

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IMO how this gets overlooked is wild. if anything it justifies him answering a door with his firearm, its pretty much the point of 2a. are you supposed to just lick the boots before you even know why they need to be licked in your own home before you even know what is happening?


It's a symptom of people who are "real big 2A guys, but..."

They want to look like they live the 2A life on social media, but they're not willing to put in the work.

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This is fricking dumb man.

No one says he doesn't have the right to answer his door, knowing there's a cop on the other side, with a gun in his hand. Depending on where you live, you have lots of rights when it comes to gun ownership but that doesn't mean you're absolved from being stupid. How about we sometimes ground ourselves in the world we live in and not as we think it should be.

In principle, yes. You should be able to walk down the street with a locked and loaded AR-15 in your hand and in some places, the law allows it. But if I see someone doing that, the first thing that comes to my mind is spree killer, the second is giant a-hole.

And under normal, everyday circumstances. If I knock on someone's door during the day and he answers with a gun in his hand, then I'm drawing the rightful conclusion that something's wrong with him.