BlisteringSilence
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Doesn't matter. While hearsay has no place in the courtroom, any intel one acquires before entering a potential armed confrontation is holy writ.OK, an armed male is a concern, including those on the SWAT team and the guy at the front door.
The duress of his unemployment is at best hearsay.
Agreed.Should a civilian react with threats of armed force with even twice the reason given s/he would in trouble plenty.
Two issues with this:People do not suddenly become violent. I've worked enough emergency rooms to have learned to sense who will react badly and who is going to take treatment without causing problems.
- acute schizophrenic break
- An ER is (despite the exterior appearances) a nice, controlled environment. A person's home is anything but.
I have worked in both Emergency Departments and in Law Enforcement, and I heartily disagree with your assertion about the lawless segment of society. In general, 90% of my calls deal with that segment. In the ER, that is nowhere near the same.And in Kentucky I saw far more of the lower/lawless segment of society in a week than the average LEO in a month. Yet with such people involved under the stresses they were suffering in the year there was only one violent incident and it was quickly and easily pacified without the use of automatic weapons.
Also, the ER in which I worked required everyone who came in under their own power to go through a metal detector, and we still managed to have three or four patients/family members threaten staff with weapons (mostly knives with a few guns thrown in for good measure) every year.