Bob Buckhorn Quotes

According to the State of Florida, the person with the gun has the right to defend him or herself.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

There is no question that Darren Wilson caused the death of Michael Brown by shooting him, but the inquiry does not end there. The law authorizes a law enforcement officer to use deadly force in certain situations. The law allows all people to use deadly force to defend themselves in certain situations.

Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

… intentional lethal use of firearms may only be made when strictly unavoidable to protect life.

if someone has a gun and is trying to kill you... it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.

'Stand your ground' laws based on the ALEC model have had harmful consequences and need to be reconsidered.

There has been an outpouring of anger and concern because of the actions of George Zimmerman, a private citizen who profiled a young boy and pursued him and tried to confront him, perhaps. But what George Zimmerman did is no different than what police officers do every day as a matter of standard operating procedure.

To state that lethal force should not be used without a proper legal justification is to state the obvious.

According to current Florida law you can get a gun, follow an unarmed minor, call the police, have them explicitly tell you to stop following [the minor] and choose to ignore that, keep following the minor, get into a confrontation with them, and if at any point during that process you get scared you can shoot the minor to death, and the state of Florida will say, 'Well, look: you did what you could.'

You do not have the right to take another human's life, unless it's in strict self-defense.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.

It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.

Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?

If one comes to kill you, make haste and kill him first.

We shot them like dogs.

Why should a man have a better right to kill his neighbor with a house than with an axe in the street?

I would shoot him in self defense.

Michael Brown was a criminal who had robbed a convenience store and then attempted to kill Police Officer Darren Wilson. Michael Brown never raised his hands above his head and never tried to surrender. He was killed in self-defense by Officer Wilson after Brown first attempted to take the officer's weapon away and then charged at him.

I don't like what George Zimmerman did, and I hate that Trayvon Martin is dead. But I also can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize.

Armed attack has a definition in international law. It means sudden, overwhelming, instantaneous ongoing attack.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Maybe today you could have shot anybody and get away with it. So there's many times, I could have killed people. Legally, I could have killed many people, especially working undercover.