Murder or Self-Defense if Officer Is Killed in Raid? (No-Knock Raid Thread)

[platoonDaddy]

Other than the terrorist in Boston, where have criminals used IED in the USA?

Not trying to be snarky as this has been a far more intelligent thread than I thought would happen but:

The San Bernadino couple (albeit devices failed)
Unabomber
Olympic Park
Columbine (though devices failed)
Oklahoma City

There is precedent.

Honestly, a single guy with a gun has never bothered me as much as a guy with a knowledge of explosives.

And don't forget the Time Square Bomber https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010...ombing_attempt

Truth be told, the use of IEDs has a rich history in America's gang culture:
https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/cd_rom/s...angmembers.pdf

However, my IED comment was in reference to just last year when the Dallas PD created an IED and delivered it by robot to kill a barricaded sniper suspect: https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nat...TiK/story.html

The Bath School disaster, sometimes known as the Bath School massacre, was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe on May 18, 1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, that killed 38 elementary schoolchildren and 6 adults and injured at least 58 other people.[Note 1] Kehoe killed his wife and firebombed his farm, then detonated an explosion in the Bath Consolidated School, before committing suicide by detonating a final device in his truck. It is the deadliest mass murder to take place at a school in United States history.[1][2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster



EDIT: I am impressed that this thread hasn't gone "south". I salute all who have commented, personally speaking, it has been very educational and enlightening.