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

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Explain what you wanted the cop to do there? Seriously, put yourself in his shoes. You going to just chance it that he won’t shoot you? He’s a human being, not a robot. The only way that guy possibly doesn’t get shot answering the door with a gun is if he immediately says don’t shoot don’t shoot don’t shoot while putting the gun on the ground and walking away from it. You can say something stupid like I wish they didn’t shoot everyone with a gun immediately, but that’s the consequences of being a stupid gun owner. A responsible gun owner doesn’t answer the door like that even if it wasn’t the police.

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You could as easily reverse this logic and apply it to the airman. Both the cop and the airman had the legal right to possess a gun.

The police don’t have the right to walk up to someone who is open carrying and shoot them because they feel unsafe.