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This is a very well put together thread. The only thing I think was missed was the inclusion of lawyers in the after action. Regardless of your individual rights to carry and the state you live in; as soon as you draw a weapon and fire it in a public space or residence you need a lawyer. You should not talk to the police or anyone regardless of how clean and well defined the shoot was without an attorney. You need to know your Miranda rights; they can’t force you to talk without an attorney. It doesn’t matter if the guy you shot was a meth head raping your mother with a knife to her throat, it is never about what the situation was but what it can be made to be. Consider also that almost everyone on earth has a relative that can come after you in civil court and if they don’t you always have to worry about the DA.
My family has been defending “LEO’s” in California for the last 33 years, my father being a vet turned LEO turned lawyer its one of the things he enjoys most. (Tho he sends lesser mortals to deal with the shots fired at 3 in the morning cases now.)
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Last edited by Arctic; 01-14-2010 at 06:54.
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