We’re talking past each other, man.
Of course, I’m not advocating murder. If they are cops, say so, and act as such, they’re safe.
My point is that military-style, door-kicking-in, SWAT team home invasions are all too frequent these days.
Back in the day, they’d knock on the door and say “Ma’am, we have a warrant to search the premises, and for your son’s arrest.” THEN, if Ma Barker yells “You’ll never take us alive, copper!” and pulls out the Tommy gun, you grab your big guns and charge.
Or else maybe she says, “I think you have the wrong house,” so you check and by god, you do! Or she begrudgingly lets you in and you realize your own mistake. Whatever. There are a lot of safe ways that could pan out. The only time it was a battle is when the perpetrators made it one.
Now, on the other hand, all too often they go in guns-a-blazing, without so much as a knock, killing pets and dressed in armored space suits. There is no room for error in a situation like that. I cannot fault someone for fighting back against that kind of deadly maelstrom raining down on their own home. Especially if they are innocent, and it’s the COPS who fucked up.
The way to fix this, so innocent people and innocent officers aren’t killed, is for the good guys (ostensibly the police) to avoid starting the battle in the first place. Be prepared, by all means, for the suspect to initiate violence, but don’t start it yourself.
When people feel their lives are threatened, they defend themselves with deadly force. So to avoid being killed by someone in self defense, common sense says don’t threaten their life. I don’t see why this is so hard.