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We’re the Only Ones Dislocated Enough

Decorated U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Fatally Shot by Police After Allegedly Barging into Wrong Apartment in Florida [More]

Time to give those boys even more “privileges”!

[Via bondmen]

We’re the Only Ones Door Dashing Enough

A SWAT team conducting a no-knock, military-style raid while looking for a meth lab in the middle of the night exercised less care in confirming the address than a pizza delivery driver. [More]

Until punishment is commensurate with injury to freedom, expect the offenses to continue.

[Via Michael G]

As Groomer Has It

Ex-Planned Parenthood Director Commits Suicide Amid Child Pornography Investigation [More]

He must have hated himself even more than he did children.

At least he showed you don’t need a gun:

The Chief Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Yergeau died by suicide and the cause was asphyxiation due to oxygen displacement by nitrogen.

So… nitrogen violence…?

And what is it with “Only Ones” and wrong house raids?

[Via Jess]

UPDATED with Bodycam Footage

See the video on “Wrong House Raid Highlights Continuing Danger to Public from Police Responders.”

We’re the Only Ones Triggered Enough

I did my AmmoLand write-up before this was available. It looks like they were already drawn down on the door even though they knew by then they were at the wrong place. The reaction was instant.

No wonder the cops in the Kloepfer shooting want theirs kept under wraps.

[Via bondmen]

Wrong House Raid Highlights Continuing Danger to Public from Police Responders

That leaves open the question of how police got the address wrong in the first place. What checklist procedures are in place to preclude an armed response and the assumptions that go with one until a positive identification has been established? Were those procedures followed? [More]

You don’t need to look very far to find plenty of headlines showing outrageously lethal raids like this happening again and again and again.

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So named from a comment by DEA agent Lee Paige, who told a classroom full of kids he was “the only one” qualified to be armed and then promptly shot himself in the foot, the purpose of this feature has never been to bash cops. The only reason I do this is to amass a credible body of evidence to present when those who would deny our right to keep and bear arms use the argument that only government enforcers are professional and trained enough to do so safely and responsibly. And it’s also used to illustrate when those of official status, rank, or privilege, both in law enforcement and in some other government position, get special breaks not available to we commoners, particularly (but not exclusively) when they’re involved in gun-related incidents.