There was no call for “sensible” or “reasonable” gun control in this shooting. No call to limit the capacity of magazines and no call to end the vitriol of talk radio. Actually, there might be another call for that last item.
According to Pima County Attorney’s office, the shooting of former Marine and Afghanistan war veteran Jose Guerena was justified.
After the May 5th shooting, the Pima County Sheriff’s office revealed multiple arrest warrants and alleged involvement in a home invasion and murder.
Pima County Deputies did, according to reports, knock and give warning that they were Sheriff’s Deputies. According to new accounts that are only now surfacing, one can agree that action was probably justified.
One might wonder, however, if 70 rounds in thirty-seconds is wise. Most citizens agree that police have a right to defend themselves as much as you do. If they were confronted with a weapon after knocking and identifying themselves, that right certainly applies.
The problem today is that, in many situation, the police are given virtually the same powers as the British Army that was a partial cause of the War of Independence. Search warrants issued far exceed the wording of the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution with the full blessing of the Supreme Court. Search warrants are supposed to be specific in what is to be seized and its location. Search warrants today are little more than fishing expeditions.
Another problem is the “prohibition” factor figured into this whole “illicit” drug trade. The Ninth Amendment makes the drug ban unconstitutional. It can be regulated, however, much as we do alcohol. The only thing this prohibition has done is to return us to the days of alcohol prohibition when politicians, government agencies and mobsters made money off of the trade.
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Here is the question. If he was arrested, over 2 years ago, and the DA did not find enough evidence to bring this to trial – why continue to allude to the issue?
This slow creeping crud to move from “knowledge” to “suspected” to “let’s raid enough houses and we will find something” is a bit unprofessional.
Maybe they are just following the Feds example:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/51992858-68/agents-fbi-search-bureau.html.csp
“Some of the most notable changes apply to the lowest category of investigations, called an “assessment.” The category, created in December 2008, allows agents to look into people and organizations “proactively” and without firm evidence for suspecting criminal or terrorist activity.”
“without firm evidence”.
It is rather suspicious that all of the information came out after the SWAT team was cleared. I’m also wondering why Pima County investigated themselves. Sounds kind of like when the CIA was selling drugs to South Central gangs and investigated themselves and found nothing wrong. There is no doubt that since the Carter administration the government has been building a police state. I give benefit of the doubt, however, because I was not there. I also remember all of the stuff that came out about David Koresh AFTER the FBI/ATF completely wiped out any evidence in Waco.