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would think that if someone was outside my door, putting holes in it, and they did not identify themselves as the police, or using threatening language during the act itself, that I would be qualified to return fire.
Why would it matter if they were the police or not? They're presumably perforating your front door in your direction. Assuming you didn't open fire on them or otherwise attack, if they're shooting through someone's door, I have to question the lawfulness of that act. If you're firing OUT the door at someone, from your residence, or a place where you have a right to beand either someone there has a weapon, or flees with a weapon, my first thought would *probably* be - homeowner repelling an attack.
Uniforms or not, people used to thinkthat <insert LE agency here> would never attack someone. Then there was Ruby Ridge, Waco, recently there was Atlanta.
Even so, that's very, very rare (unless of course you're an optometrist in Fairfax County).
I am familiar with theparticular area original poster mentions, and he's rightthere's a lot of "spill over" thugs who can't "make their bones" in PG because they're kind of "junior varsity" thugs. They're "not ready for prime time" hoodlums so there's a high arrest & conviction rate. If they keep it up they're going to get themselves killed in record numbers. As blue as the county is, you would likely be surprised by the percentage of gun owning homes around. Most may not be asvocal as OCDO, but they run the gamut from 4'6" retired old ladies to professionals & service men/women. Plus, there isn't too much crime about the person, it's mostly property crimes from what I've seen, and a great deal of the issues take place on the Rt.1 corridor. It's tough to fault FCPD for this, they have a fairly visible presence.
I'm probably going to get flamed for this...
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This is what happens when you give people things that they don't earn, or even try hard to achieve. Subsidized,"8A", & low income housing are allkeywords for wealth redistribution ladies and gentlemen and when you let your elected delegations promote this crap, we end up paying for it exponentially year after year. It's also complicated by the fact that FC in particular is on a political Jihad to stuff as many human beings in the smallest amount of real estate possible. The combination of too many peopleand subsidized housing and being a "sanctuary county" for illegal CRIMINAL aliens, turns great places to live into slums in less than a generation. You can't give people freedomthey have to earn it. People don't appreciate giftsas much as they do acquisitions they achieved through hard work.
Flame away.
If we really wanted to get rid of the Junior varsity, not ready for prime time hoodlums that are coming to FC, all we would need to do is make it inhospitable for them.
Actually do immigrant status checks for all service requests.
Start enforcing some of the laws 'to the letter' - nuissance crimes.
start saturation patrols of these 'high service call' areas
Use the CPOs to coordinate neighborhood watches (to take the heat off the patrols of having to be everywhere)
Have patrols hang out at the apartment complexes, insteadofthe 7/11's on 235 and Starbucks at Beacon hill and HD shopping center. - no joke, Starbucks will come to you if you make arrangements. IfFCPDput "sub station camps" there, crime would plummetlike a ROCK. Cockroachs don't like sunlight and JV thugs don't like to be around "Five Oh". we could bring the donuts to the apartment complexes with FCPD a few feet away.