Don’t go to your door at night with a gun in your hand in Harris County
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 9:22 pm
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I can’t seem to find it on YouTube because they posted it a long time ago, but Active Self Protection has a video in which police responding to a call shoot a male homeowner in the same manner. I can’t remember if it was a wrong address, or if the victim was the one who called the police, but he never even got the door open. They pounded on the door. They could see through the window right next to the door that the homeowner (who it turns out had just been roused from sleep by the pounding) was coming to the door with a gun in his hand when the officer in question shot him through that window. The cop's bullets hit him in the lower abdomen and he went down hard. Blood everywhere. He survived, barely, but only because the police quickly realized their terrible mistake and began lifesaving measures. Imagine what that cop who shot him went through, even if it was ultimately decided that he acted correctly (which, in my opinion he did not). Any sentient person would feel terrible about nearly killing an innocent person. And if the man had actually died? Even if exonerated, I would imagine that the officer in question would quit the force…not wanting to ever be placed in that situation again.
This is my advice as well. I have a firearm located within reach of each door in my home. It is not just the police I worry about. It is also the local girl scouts selling cookies or even a neighbor with some issue. I don't have a desire to show up at the door with a gun in my hand, scaring some neighbor that is simply wanting to ask a simple question. If I recognize the person at the door to be a likely solicitor, I don't answer it. With ring cameras being so inexpensive these days, it is pretty easy to know who is at the door without approaching it.Excaliber wrote: ↑Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:20 am Going to the door with a gun in your hand is a bad tactic anywhere.
If you're not going to use a Ring doorbell or other intercom system from somewhere else in the home (best tactic), keep the gun concealed and speak through the door until you establish that the visitor(s) is someone you want to let inside. If not, just speak through the door.
This woman put the LEO's in an extremely bad position where they had to make a decision on what reasonably appeared to be a deadly threat in a second or two.
I'm not going to comment on the number of rounds fired.
The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:15 pm This video is deeply disturbing…
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So many things that disturbed me watching this cringe -worthy event unfold...The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:15 pm This video is deeply disturbing…
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I’ve never had either police or military training (BTW, I don't think I knew that you’d been in Special Forces), but so much of your analysis seems like just plain common sense to me. I’ve watched more than one analysis video of this shooting…IIRC one was on the ASP channel…and I came to exactly the same conclusions you did before I even posted those two videos. I was specifically struck by two of the things you mentioned: the absolute panic causing the dark haired officer to continue dumping two full magazines (35 rounds) long AFTER the victim was already down (without having fired a shot); and the really poor gun-handling and poor tactical awareness of the blond officer.Mike S wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16, 2024 6:06 pmSo many things that disturbed me watching this cringe -worthy event unfold...The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:15 pm This video is deeply disturbing…
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1. Judgment. …
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Hopefully the Harris County Sheriff's Dept will be more transparent than Houston P.D.' s investigation of the botched Harding Street 'raid'.
Future version of the Ring Doorbell (all fiction, of course, but there may a marketing niche here):