No Country for Old Men

by Will

Liberty Minute October 15 2013

Last June 27, 80-year-old Eugene Mallory woke up to find armed men in his home in Littlerock, California. The elderly man?s glasses were on the nightstand beside him. His handgun was also within easy reach. After the panicking man reached for his gun, he was shot six times, killing him.

The intruders were LA County Sheriff?s Deputies. They were serving a narcotics warrant issued in response to a claim that an investigator who had visited the property smelled ingredients used to manufacture methamphetamine. No meth or precursors were found on the property, although a small amount of marijuana was located.

The department insists that the discovery of marijuana validated the search. However, the Fourth Amendment requires that in order to a warrant to be valid it must specify the items being sought. Additionally, a report of a suspicious smell doesn?t meet the Fourth Amendment?s standards for probable cause.

Since the warrant was invalid, and the search was illegitimate, Mallory was within his legal rights to use lethal force to defend himself. However, department spokesman Steve Whitmore insists that ?The lesson here is ? don?t pull a gun on a deputy.?

A more suitable lesson is this: We live in a country where criminals in uniform feel entitled to gun down elderly men in their beds.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. 

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