Can you point to a case where the police broke into someone's home, the homeowner shot the police, and was subsequently cleared on self-defense grounds? Or do you mean some yet-to-exist GRU/NKVD/KGB-alike entity rather than, say, the FBI executing a no-knock warrant? I am not trying to be argumentative, just legitimately curious.
Well, when you're under a dictatorship, you KNOW you're under a dictatorship. If you were pretty much anywhere in South America in the seventies, and something woke you up at 3 AM, odds were that was the secret police coming to take you away to torture and/or kill you.
I also stumbled upon this:
Fifteen former LAPD officers have plead guilty to running a robbery ring, which used fake no-knock raids as a ruse to catch victims off guard. The defendants would then steal cash and drugs to sell on the street. This tactic lead Radley Balko, editor of Reason Magazine, to complain "So not only can you not be sure the people banging down your door at night are the police, not only can you not be sure they’re the police even if they say they’re the police, you can’t even be sure it’s safe to let them in even if they are the police."[2][3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant
It allows you to have a gun in case something like that happens. On the day in question, you can go down fighting, or maybe survive. It's not trivial to bust into a house and arrest someone if that person knows the corridors better and may have set booby traps.
Also, the people involved in these armed resistance instances don't have to personally come out on top. They affect enforcement; make the powers that be nervous and careful. I'm pretty sure some politicians thought extra hard before abusing poor people's property rights after the Carl Drega incident, even though he was killed. Not that I know Carl Drega was clearly in the right, but you get the point.
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Can you point to a case where the police broke into someone's home, the homeowner shot the police, and was subsequently cleared on self-defense grounds? Or do you mean some yet-to-exist GRU/NKVD/KGB-alike entity rather than, say, the FBI executing a no-knock warrant? I am not trying to be argumentative, just legitimately curious.
Well, when you're under a dictatorship, you KNOW you're under a dictatorship. If you were pretty much anywhere in South America in the seventies, and something woke you up at 3 AM, odds were that was the secret police coming to take you away to torture and/or kill you.
I also stumbled upon this: Fifteen former LAPD officers have plead guilty to running a robbery ring, which used fake no-knock raids as a ruse to catch victims off guard. The defendants would then steal cash and drugs to sell on the street. This tactic lead Radley Balko, editor of Reason Magazine, to complain "So not only can you not be sure the people banging down your door at night are the police, not only can you not be sure they’re the police even if they say they’re the police, you can’t even be sure it’s safe to let them in even if they are the police."[2][3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant
could you explain how right to bear arms is of any help in such situation?
It allows you to have a gun in case something like that happens. On the day in question, you can go down fighting, or maybe survive. It's not trivial to bust into a house and arrest someone if that person knows the corridors better and may have set booby traps.
Ruby ridge incident.
Also, the people involved in these armed resistance instances don't have to personally come out on top. They affect enforcement; make the powers that be nervous and careful. I'm pretty sure some politicians thought extra hard before abusing poor people's property rights after the Carl Drega incident, even though he was killed. Not that I know Carl Drega was clearly in the right, but you get the point.