as a homeowner chasing bumps in the
night outside your property with a long
gun is a really bad idea today we see
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this car that you see pulled up in front
of this house you can see it's after 10
p.m is actually full of cops on a drug
Stakeout for another house and you can
see kind of in the backyard there the
homeowner has got to come out to see
what's going on with these guys and then
he's kind of you know checking them out
whatever and then he goes back in the
house I'm speeding up this just for the
sake of time it's going to turn his
porch light on and off several times
clearly as a marker to them hey I'm
awake I see you get out of here whatever
but it's a bunch of cops on a Stakeout
they're not going anywhere regardless so
now what's going to happen is he is
going to come back out and he is
actually armed with a rifle and so he is
going to come out into his front yard
here not knowing who these guys are
thinking that maybe they mean to invade
his home or something like that but he's
going to come out show the rifle to the
front of the car go so far here now as
to actually kind of bang on the hood
with the rifle and then point it at them
at which time he is going to get them to
come out first shot from the back seat
second shot from the front seat he gets
his shot off and now you are going to
see see the officer in the back seat
gets out and just goes to work and they
shot him multiple times he did not make
it through that this is really a
terrible tragedy and we need to think
about what went wrong man this is a bad
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so a bunch of cops on the Stakeout here
tells me probably not the world's
greatest neighborhood that said I
totally get that this man who seemingly
from what I can tell is not a bad person
he's a good Saint sober moral person and
he has the right to have a firearm in
his home has the right to be aware of
his surroundings has the right to defend
himself and his family in his home
without any question and even I think
this strategy here of turning the light
on and off may not have been a bad idea
if they were casing his his house to go
okay wait a minute somebody's awake I
don't want any more to do with him to
kind of try to scare him off but it
doesn't work here and the big mistake
that he made then is coming out of the
house with the firearm on his person and
deciding to use that as an intimidation
tool that was a huge mistake again if
you get into this spot they won't go
when you turn the porch light on and off
a couple times whatever you're paying
attention to them they know that you've
seen them they're not going anywhere the
right answer here is to call 9-1-1 is to
call into the authorities and ask for a
drive-by ask for a check in this
particular case I think it probably
would have been given him some
confidence they say Hey you know we'll
check in with them whatever actually you
know that you're okay that's not a
danger to you go back in your house
whatever now I don't know if they'd told
them that because it's a Stakeout
whatever but I mean your answer here is
to call the cops now I get it in a lot
of times here that they might say hey we
don't have the Manpower for that there's
nothing that we can do your answer there
is not to go outside your home you're
putting yourself at risk for death and
and you're gonna your bargain here is
I'm gonna go outside to have a a
potential gun battle with an unknown
number of people of unknown capability
and unknown Armament that is a bad
tactical decision so even you know again
from a legal perspective we could talk
about whether it's a good idea legally
or whatever but from the perspective of
good tactics this is a terrible idea
because you're you are exposing yourself
to Danger far better to stay in your
house arm yourself if you want to and
and just not go on the offense we are
self-defenders not offenders we are not
offensive we are defensive so he comes
up and now again these guys are outside
his property they're on a public street
they're not doing anything wrong and
when of course he he then is showing
them the gun quite frankly this is again
terrible tactics because he's put
himself very far forward so he's not
doing anything where he knows what he's
about he's not using b-pedder or Zona
safety or anything like that he's put
himself in a place where literally
everyone in that that car can shoot at
him if they are so armed and so he's put
himself at a literally probably the
worst possible place other than
immediately in front of the grill where
they could run him over really bad idea
all the way around so from a tactical
perspective this is a huge mess then
what you're going to see him do is again
you know just taking our time and seeing
what happens with it he is going to then
bang on their car with his gun and raise
it up to them now friends this is where
a hundred percent I don't care if this
is a car full of cops or just private
citizens any reasonable person would be
at fear of death or great bodily harm
from somebody pointing a rifle at them
while they are legally parked on the
street now I don't know if they're
covering his driveway or whatever but
again they're they're in a place they
have the legal right to be and and
anybody would feel at risk of death or
great bodily harm he is committing
aggravated assault here he doesn't have
any reason that a reasonable person
would say that he should be pointing a
gun at people and because of that again
it's completely irrelevant whether this
is a police officer or private citizen
they absolutely have the right to defend
their life using deadly force when
someone puts them at risk of death like
this
and so I think the officer's actions
here are a hundred percent Justified and
and I get it again that he is worried
about what's going on in his house or
worried about his family and there are
those kinds of things but but he has
become the offender he's not a Defender
now he's an offender and that is putting
him in a place where I don't blame these
officers one bit to get out of the car
and put a shot on him and a second shot
again both of them now I will note this
that from this perspective I think these
officers got hits and and well I can't
tell you whether or not they did they
eventually got a bunch of hits on the
guy but a gunfight is two-way and so
again in this last moment where he is
thinking I'm just asking you friends
please tell hear me is that is he
wondering gosh this was a great idea or
is he wishing he had stayed inside his
house clearly he is wishing he has
stayed inside uh his house clearly he is
wishing that he hadn't done this please
use this as an example of why we don't
do this kind of thing finally of course
again I'm just assuming this man is not
a bad person I don't I I don't blame
these officers one bit for what they did
in fact I think what they did was right
but given the fact that what he's done
has just made some huge tactical
blunders to get to where he is and put
him in this spot where these officers
had to do exactly what they should have
done what any citizen should have done
and this is one of the reasons that we
practice spiritual Fitness and that
starts with being a good sane sober
moral prudent person and making sure
that you take prudent action secondly
that your loved ones know that you love
them and that you've solved any
conflicts that you can that you do write
in every opportunity so that you don't
end up in these kinds of situations
where you leave things undone at the end
of your life and then third you make
sure that your relationship with Jesus
is strong because you will need it on
that day and may not have time to get it
let's learn the lessons from this one
it's a bad outcome and that outcome was
entirely preventable let's do better