Gun Control & RKBA

I do grant that. Bringing up the quality of the door is irrelevant in my opinion.

In our perfect world of being able to calmly review the situation from the comfort of a chair, or in my case sitting in front of a grill full of cooking brats going out to meet the police with the gun and a hand was a serious and ultimately fatal mistake.

On the other hand I have been in a similar situation and my analogous role would be in that of the police. I know what it is to come up on a person who you are aware is armed and potentially hostile. I know how quickly decisions to shoot or don't shoot must be made. I also know that you can identify your target in a very, very short amount of time and choose whether or not to shoot, if you have prepared yourself.

In my eyes the greater burden of preparation falls on the person whose job description includes encountering violent and chaotic scenes. It should not be up to the victims to protect themselves from the police. In other cases we do not ask that of them yet this one it seems we have inverted the paradigm.

Now it is entirely possible some action was taken by the deceased that what justify the police firing such as he came out pointing the gun at them. Were I on the inquiry board I would be asking some very tough and pointed questions of the officers requiring them to fully justify their choices and actions.