Law To Allow Homeowners To Kill Police Officers?

[Police Moderator]

Indiana House Approves Bill That Allows Homeowners To Kill Police Officers
March 2, 2012
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.

Republicans in Indiana are taking self-defense too far. In a move supported by the National Rifle Association, the Indiana House passed Senate Bill 1, which allows homeowners to shoot and kill police officers they believe are unlawfully on their property or in their homes. The bill could also extend to federal law enforcement officials.

According to the Evansville Courier Press, the bill is a response to a decision made by the Indiana Supreme Court in 2011. “The court ruled that homeowners do not have the right to use force against law enforcement officials who they believe are illegally entering their homes. That decision came in the case of Richard Barnes, who filed a lawsuit against police who followed him into his house while they were responding to a domestic dispute Barnes had with his wife.”

The key word there, is ‘believe.’ People have different beliefs when it comes to the police. Most people respect the boys in blue and understand that they are just trying to do a dangerous job that doesn’t exactly pay well. Some, on the other hand, have no respect at all for police and believe them to be the enemy at all time, whether they have a warrant or not. But it’s a particularly risky situation that Republicans are putting police officers in, because in some situations police officers enter homes when they have sufficient reason to believe that a crime is taking place. For example, if a police officer is walking by a home and a woman screams because her husband is beating her mercilessly, there isn’t time to wait for a court approved warrant to enter the home. Under Senate Bill 1, which passed by a 74-24 vote, the husband could shoot and kill the officer for entering his home and get away with it. And there are many other situations where police may deem it necessary to enter a home, such as the situation in which the Indiana Court ruled.

Rep. Craig Fry, a Democrat, says the bill “is going to cause people to die and it’s too late after somebody dies for a jury to sort it out. Somebody’s going to die, whether it’s a police officer or an individual who thinks a police officer is entering their home unlawfully. People are going to die.”

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Yet another reason I am glad I dropped out of the NRA decades ago. I've now dropped out of the Republican Party, just on principle. Can anyone recommend a new Party for me?

If Alex M. F. Teach starts a Political Party, I may join it. (If they'll have me)

[Half-Tard]

Wow that's over the top. Good luck on your party search. Just fly the Independent Flag, of course it's not recognized in Tennessee. I'm serious though that is whack.

[el Gusano]

This might not be quite as whack as it sounds. I'm sure it can be applied to the few cases in which the homeowner is justified in defending himself, and the other person just happens to be a cop (think about people who get shot because cops are at the wrong address), but a bad guy is going to shoot anyway, and this just gives them more power to pile it on him in court because he's NOT justified in firing.

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> If Alex M. F. Teach starts a Political Party, I may join it.

You might want to reconsider because I have the sinking feeling his party has been flooded by a bunch of blowhards.

On the other hand, I will write in his name for president today. Several times, in fact.