usmarine0352_2005
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Swatting is the act of tricking an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into dispatching an emergency response based on the false report of an ongoing critical incident.
It's extremely dangerous because law enforcement can arrive at someone's residence on the auspices that there is a danger crime going on and that someone's life is in danger such as swatting someone's home and telling them that someone is being murdered there. The police could end up arriving and killing someone.
Now, the anti-gunners want to swat legal gun owners on the street and hope that police will waste their time and or harm them.
The reason this one is different is because with all of the publicity of the mass shootings police will most likely take this seriously and the caller (anti-gun person) won't get in trouble because it's different then swatting someone's house when you can tell that is a 'prank' (a very dangerous prank).
People who've got caught swatting homes have been charged with crimes in the past. I disagree with Pratt from the article because I don't see that people swatting lawful gun owners will be charged with filing a false police report as there is so much, "See it, call on it" that is pushed on civilians from police these days because of terrorists and mass shooters.
However, this could be extremely dangerous for law enforcement and legal gun owners, especially with today's climate of the real threat of homegrown terror and the anti-police murderers.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/0...permit-holders-putting-lives-at/?intcmp=hpbt4
It's extremely dangerous because law enforcement can arrive at someone's residence on the auspices that there is a danger crime going on and that someone's life is in danger such as swatting someone's home and telling them that someone is being murdered there. The police could end up arriving and killing someone.
Now, the anti-gunners want to swat legal gun owners on the street and hope that police will waste their time and or harm them.
The reason this one is different is because with all of the publicity of the mass shootings police will most likely take this seriously and the caller (anti-gun person) won't get in trouble because it's different then swatting someone's house when you can tell that is a 'prank' (a very dangerous prank).
People who've got caught swatting homes have been charged with crimes in the past. I disagree with Pratt from the article because I don't see that people swatting lawful gun owners will be charged with filing a false police report as there is so much, "See it, call on it" that is pushed on civilians from police these days because of terrorists and mass shooters.
However, this could be extremely dangerous for law enforcement and legal gun owners, especially with today's climate of the real threat of homegrown terror and the anti-police murderers.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/09/0...permit-holders-putting-lives-at/?intcmp=hpbt4
Gun control groups accused of ‘swatting’ open-carry permit holders, putting lives at risk
By Perry ChiaramontePublished September 01, 2015
Second Amendment groups are accusing the gun control lobby of putting law-abiding owners of firearms in danger by urging people to call the police on anyone carrying a gun in public. As more states relax rules about open-carrying of guns, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has taken to social media to urge the public to assume gun-toters are trouble, and to call the cops on anyone they feel may be a threat.
“If you see someone carrying a firearm in public—openly or concealed—and have ANY doubts about their intent, call 911 immediately and ask police to come to the scene,” the group wrote on its widely followed Facebook page. “Never put your safety, or the safety of your loved ones, at the mercy of weak gun laws that arm individuals in public with little or no criminal and/or mental health screening.”
Pratt agreed, and said people who call the police without legitimate reason should be charged. “They would likely be the ones arrested for filing a false report,” he said. “And we are certainly hoping that would be the case.”