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If you want to own guns then you should accept the fact that you risk having your head blown off in the middle of the night by a SWAT team. Just as the car has introduced the risk of being killed in a trafic accident the gun has introduced new risks. If society dosen't like the risks then it can opt to ban the technology.

Except that getting killed in a traffic accident IS an accident (mostly :) while having black clad Fed's storming into your house was _consciously_ decided by them, because THEY have a problem with YOUR guns (?!)...

I think the original point was that they MIGHT storm into your house by mistake (say, because they incorrectly accepted a informant's story). Therefore, it is truly a mistake. That said, it is still not justifiable for a SWAT team to FORCE a situation where they may necessarily be in physical danger, and therefore, are forced to respond with overwhelming force when the target may reasonably be innocent. Worse yet, the bureaucrats, whose asses are on the line when a tragic mistake occurs, will rarely, if ever, admit to any wrongdoing. They may be forced out, at worse; there may be a symbolic verbal lynching in front of the Congress, but that would be about it. If such a tragedy were to occur to me, and I were to survive, I would want the responsible PERSONS fully acknowledge their mistakes (and be properly punished). It is a travesty of justice to blame a no-name, faceless "system" as was done in the well-known recent cases (whether or not the target was ultimately found guilty of any misdeeds). Ern