The Glade 4.0

It doesn't make it any easier, since you can't possibly know that the search is unlawful. A law-abiding person still can't fire at the cops, because there's no way for him to know whether or not he's breaking it. The law just randomly gets criminals who would have shot at the cops anyway off the hook. Even worse, now the cops have to worry about going down for murder every time they defend themselves against gunfire.

No but it does mean you might choose to arrest a guy when he shows up for work rather than invade his house with his two kids wife and dog at 3 am unannounced.

You might also double check the address when its decided that a swat style home entry is called for.

You know - the proper amount of due dilligence and comon sense that should have been active before but was not.

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This law doesn't make it legal to shoot at cops if you think their warrant is bad. Here are the key sections:


Note the distinction between when the use of force is permitted and when the use of deadly force is permitted. If you don't believe the cops have a valid search and/or arrest warrant, you might be able to get away with basic physical resistance under clause (j), but unless you reasonably believe deadly force is necessary to prevent serious bodily injury, as provided in clause (k), you can't shoot at them. Basically, what this law does is allow people to (i) physically resist a wrongful search/arrest without being charged with assault and (ii) shoot a cop only in the rarest, most extreme circumstance where he's beating the everliving **** out of you or someone else for absolutely no good reason.

To be honest, I'm not even sure clause (j) permits resistance if you think the cop is acting in good faith. The meaning of the distinction between "lawful execution of...official duties" under (j) and "execution of...official duties" under (k) isn't clear, assuming it was even intentional. If a cop is enforcing a warrant in good faith but the warrant was wrongfully issued, is he lawfully executing his duties or unlawfully executing them? My guess is the former, but who knows. We'll have to see what the courts do with it the first time some yahoo decks a cop with a bad warrant.

I should open up a feng shui business for firearm owners. I can place things in such a way to concentrate negative people into the fatal funnel.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

I'm not sure why I get surprised at how much some of you guys hate cops, but I still do.

Please quote for me, from this thread, where anyone says anything hateful about cops.

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