-A cop points out how some of the details of these type of raids aren’t being mentioned.

-Shorter TalkLeft: “Gee, thanks Scalia!”

Also, some examples showing that radical times forge radical people…

As the story comes out, I have no reason to believe she thought she was doing anything but a “righteous shooting”. *I* certainly would have shot first, asked questions later if I were in her shoes. I guess it’s all the more reason to practice those headshots and crotch shots.
-Desert Cat

As for cops busting down your door in civilian clothes, Hell awaits them.
Should I start using a rifle for home defense? .308 Winchester will go through just about anything a person can wear.
-”LightningJoe”, poster on TheHighRoad.org

Look, if three burly dudes in street clothes start banging on my door one night and try and force their way into my home, I don’t care if they’re yelling “Police!” or “Singing Telegram!“, that’s why I keep a loaded M4 carbine in the house.
-Tamara, of Views From The Porch

Wait ’til a few more grandmas get ventilated. If someone started killing police officers right now, I could care less. Heat. Kitchen. They can can always get honest work instead.
-Tom Perkins, commenting on QandO

This is what the drug war & the militarization of domestic law enforcement is doing. For every Kathryn Johnston that is killed, for every Cory Maye who is branded a murderer for self-defense, a thought comes around to the rest of us that doesn’t bode well for either side of the equation: “Since the Constitution & legal vigilance aren’t restraining them, maybe force is all they understand”.

Overbearing authorities: you’ve been warned…