# Yet another SWAT raid death and no charges filed **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 20, 2011, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-swat-raid-death-and-no-charges-filed/568278 "2011-01-20T02:57:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 450
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2011, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-swat-raid-death-and-no-charges-filed/568278/450 "2011-02-11T09:34:05Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Sure, being a criminal increases the odds that one day police will come smashing into your house to serve a no-knock entry, but: > > -This is not guaranteed, since the majority of criminals don’t have this happen to them; and > -This occasionally _does_ happen to people with no criminal records at all. Yes. In much the same way, driving drunk increases the odds you’ll die in your car, but it’s not guaranteed. Indeed, the majority of drunk drivers don’t have this happen to them. And it occasionally happens to people who haven’t had a drop to drink. Nonetheless, when discussing the tragedy of someone killed while driving drunk, we don’t quail from pointing out the possible effect of his life choices. Let me offer a speculation that I never would in GD, because it’s just a theory; no proof. In your little liberal heart of hearts, you don’t really regard Blair’s drug use or selling as a real crime, So you frantically look for ways to forget it, or minimize it, in this discussion. But you readily accept drunk driving as a crime, and so you don’t object when then drunk driver’s death is leavened with discussions about how his drunkeness might be relevant to his death… even if the particular acciddent in which he died was not his fault. How close am I? --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-swat-raid-death-and-no-charges-filed/568278)._